St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Knight
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Prairie Circuit .Court, Southern District; George M. Ci-iaplinE, Judge; STATEMENT BY TILE COURT. This is an action by S. H. Knight against the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company for being put off the train away from the station to which he wished to go.
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Appeal from Prairie Circuit .Court, Southern District; George M. Ci-iaplinE, Judge; STATEMENT BY TILE COURT. This is an action by S. H. Knight against the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company for being put off the train away from the station to which he wished to go. The facts are briefly as follows: *0n the 4th day of March, 1902, S. H. Knight purchased a ticket from the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company to go from Stuttgart to Ulm, a station on the railroad of that company seven miles north of Stuttgart. He paid 21 cents for the ticket, and boarded the northbound passenger train…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal by the railway company from a judgment against it for $150 damages caused a passenger for carrying him a mile and a half beyond his station. It is admitted that the train overshot the station, and carried the plaintiff some distance beyond it. According to witnesses for plaintiff, he was carried a mile and a half or two miles beyond the station, while the testimony for the defendant tends to show that the distance beyond the station at which he was put off was only half a mile. The defendant does not deny that plaintiff is entitled to…
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