Sawyer v. Norfolk Southern Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Justice, J., at January Term, 1915, of PASQUOTANK. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
This is an action for damages for ejection from defendant’s train. The plaintiff was a passenger thereon, 24 March, 1913, having purchased a ticket from Norfolk, Ya., to New Bern, N. C. At that time the defendant required passengers from Norfolk to New Bern to change at Ohocowinity, where another train of defendant took , passengers to New Bern; the original train from Norfolk going on to Raleigh.
The facts as found by the jury are that on the night in question, soon after the train pulled out of the station at Norfolk, the defendant’s conductor took up plaintiff’s ticket, but failed to return…
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