Ragland v. Norfolk & Washington (D. C.) Steamboat Co.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. This is a libel in personam to recover damages for the false arrest and imprisonment of the libelant on hoard the steamer Norfolk, of the Norfolk and Washington (D. C.) Steamboat Company, on the night of the 25th of September. 1907. On the day named, the libelant, being in New York, bought a ticket over the Pennsylvania Railroad via Washington by the respondent’s steamer to Norfolk.
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In Admiralty. This is a libel in personam to recover damages for the false arrest and imprisonment of the libelant on hoard the steamer Norfolk, of the Norfolk and Washington (D. C.) Steamboat Company, on the night of the 25th of September. 1907. On the day named, the libelant, being in New York, bought a ticket over the Pennsylvania Railroad via Washington by the respondent’s steamer to Norfolk. He left New York about 11 o’clock in the forenoon, and arrived at Washington about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and at once proceeded to the steamer. Shortly after arriving on board, he saw the purser…
1Opinion of the CourtWaddill, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This-is the case of a passenger placed under arrest. The preponderance of evidence establishes the truthfulness of libelant’s version as to what occurred and the manner of his treatment. His witnesses were passengers, traveling salesmen, evidently persons of character and intelligence, entirely disinterested, who did not know libelant, nor he them. They resided in three different states, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and agree that the arrest and treatment of the libelant was.outrageous, uncalled for, and neither justified or necessitated by…
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- Bloom v. National United Benefit Savings & Loan Co.New York Supreme Court · 1894
- Kolzem v. Broadway & Seventh Avenue RailroadNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1892
- Pearce v. NeedhamAppellate Court of Illinois · 1890
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