George v. St. L., I. M. & S. R'y Co.

On the sixteenth of March, 1877, Bailey R. George commenced this action in the circuit court of Clark county, against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway company, the complaint alleging in substance :

That defendant was running and operating a line of railway in this state, transporting passengers and freight, and about the seventeenth of November, 1876, plaintiff procured and paid for a ticket on said railroad from Little Rock to Texarkana, and got aboard of one of defendant’s trains, and while on said train, and seated in one of the passenger cars, the said train, from the…