Creech v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Gox, J., at February Term, 1917, of JOHNSTON. This is an action by a passenger for wrongful ejection from defendant’s train.
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Appeal by defendant from Gox, J., at February Term, 1917, of JOHNSTON. This is an action by a passenger for wrongful ejection from defendant’s train. The plaintiff, who lived with his father near Selma, N. 0., was attending school at Dayton, Va., when he received a telegram that his father was dead. lie borrowed money to buy his ticket home, and at Harrisonburg, Ya., on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the nearest depot, he bought a through ticket to Selma, N. 0. At Staunton, Ya., he changed to train of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for Richmond. The conductor on that train told him that his…
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
The only question presented by the appeal is the refusal to nonsuit. When the railroad company, through its agent at Harrison-burg, sold the plaintiff a through ticket to Selma, N. C., he was acting as agent for the defendant road as to its part of the line, and its part •of the money received was received by him on behalf of the defendant company. The ticket on its face stated that the issuing company acted as the agent only of the other companies. It does not appear, and it is not claimed, that there was any error in that ticket. When the agent at Charlottesville, at the instance of the…
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- Norman v. East Carolina Railway Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1913
- Sawyer v. Norfolk Southern RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1915