Curl v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Washington Circuit Cov/rt. This is an action to recover damages for an alleged unlawful, negligent, willful and malicious removal of the plaintiff ' from a train of cars of the defendant by a passenger conductor. There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $500. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
I. The plaintiff claims that in March, 1881, he went to the ticket-office of the defendant, at Keota, to purchase a ticket and take passage upon a passenger train for Washington, Iowa, and that the ticket-agent was absent from liis post of duty; that the train arrived at the station, and plaintiff went out of the ticket-office and found the agent upon the platform, and asked him for a ticket, and was told by the ticket-agent to pay-his fare upon the train; that he went aboard the train, and, when the conductor came through collecting the tickets of the passengers, he offered him forty-five…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stone v. C. & N. W. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1877
3Cited by13 opinions
- Sebastian v. WoodSupreme Court of Iowa · 1954
- Amos v. Prom, Inc.District Court, N.D. Iowa · 1953
- Kelly v. Muscatine, Burlington & Southern RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1923
- Betts v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1894
- Haines v. M. S. Welker & Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1918
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