Southern Railway Co. v. Skinner

The defendant in error brought suit against the plaintiff in error for damages, making the following allegations: “That petitioner lives about one mile from the court-house in the town of Douglasville, Ga., and that on the 13th day of October, 1905, petitioner boarded what was then known and called the accommodation train in Atlanta, Ga., leaving the terminal station at 6 :15 p. m. He had purchased a ticket to Douglasville, Ga., and when he reached Douglasville he paid the conductor in charge of said train ten cents to ride to a point near one mile ■west of the depot in said town of…