Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Christison
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Ford County; the Hon. A. Sample, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtWall, J.
This was an action on the case for damages accruing to the plaintiff on account of being put off a train on the defendant’s railroad. The plaintiff recovered a judgment for §75, from which the defendant has prosecuted an appeal to this court.
The plaintiff alleges that he applied to the ticket agent for a ticket from Gibson to switch D., and that the agent refused to sell him a ticket but assigned no reason for such refusal; that he then got upon the train after having learned from the conductor that it would stop at said station; that he conductor required him to pay ten cents extra for…
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