Davis v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

COX, PRESIDENT:

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, a corporation, asks to reverse a judgment against it for $900.00 and costs, entered upon the verdict of a jury by the circuit court of Kanawha county, in an action of trespass on ' the case instituted by R. L. Davis. The plaintiff Davis claims, and offered evidence on the trial before the jury tending to prove, among other things, that on the 9th day of February, 1904, he became a passenger at Huntington, W. Va., on train number 6 of the defendant company, running east through Kanawha and Fayette counties; that he bought a ticket to Malden…