Lewis v. Western & Atlantic Railroad

Judgment affirmed.

The plaintiff purchased a ticket at Birmingham, Alabama, to Atlanta, via Chattanooga, over the Q. & C. and defendant’s lines, of the ticket agent at the depot at Birmingham, just before taking the train for Chattanooga, between two and three o’clock a. m. on February 1, 1892. Plaintiff’just asked for a ticket which he knew was a one day limit ticket. He had bought and used similar tickets many times before. He left Chattanooga for Atlanta on February 2, 1892, via defendant’s road, between twelve o’clock m. and one o’clock p. m. of that day. The conductor came to him to…