Central Railroad v. Glass

Jackson, Judge.

This action was brought by Glass against the company, and he recovered a verdict. The company moved for a new trial; it was denied and the company excepted.

Glass was taken aboard the cars at Atlanta drunk; he had a ticket, but failed to give it to the conductor when it was called for before the train reached East Point; and that and two other stations were passed and he was not put off at either; when in three-quarters of a mile or a mile of another station, on an embankment some two hundred’ yards from a crossing, he was put off by the conductor and brakeman in a drunken…