Louisville & N. R. v. Burns
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee; John E. McCall, Judge. Action by Monroe Burns against the Eouisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
Burns who was plaintiff below, was a passenger for hire upon defendant’s excursion train from Keeling, Tenn., to Memphis, and return, holding a round-trip' ticket therefor. He brought'suit in a state court, charging that as the train on the return trip had just passed Mason (Keeling being beyond Mason) he was forcibly and wrongfully ejected from the moving train by a special officer in defendant’s employ, connected with the handling of the excursion, sustaining serious injuries. The case was removed to the federal court because of diversity of citizenship of the…
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