Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Gatewood

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

[Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Franklin Circuit Court entered upon a verdict awarding appellee $400 damages sustained by him, as alleged, from the wrongful áct of appellant in refusing to receive him as a passenger upon one of its trains from Shelbyville to Frankfort.

It appears from the evidence found in the record that appellee, who is a resident of Frankfort, went to Shelby-ville, on the morning of November 3, 1911, to attend the Shelby County court. Meeting there with friends, he took with them several drinks during the course of the…