Phillips v. Southern Railway Co.

The plaintiff sued the Southern Railway Company for damages alleged to have been sustained by him by reason of his having been unlawfully expelled from one of its passenger-trains. Leaving out certain allegations in reference to the nature and extent of the injury, his petition made the following case. “ On the 14th day of January, 1899, the plaintiff applied to the defendant, through its agent R. L. Fields, at its ticket office at Bremen, Ga., to purchase a ticket from Bremen to Temple on its line of road, for the purpose of taking passage on the regular passenger-train, which was due to…