Burnham v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.

This is an action on the case, in which the plaintiff, a resident and business man of St. Johns, Mich., seeks to recover from defendant damages for a claimed wrongful ejection from one of its west-bound passenger trains, on the morning of August 26, 19Í0.

It appears that the plaintiff and his wife, who had been visiting near the city of Flint, came to Durand and took the defendant’s west-bound train No. 19, due to leave there at 9:45 a. m., for St. Johns. Neither of them had tickets. The plaintiff’s wife claims to have gone on the train, entered a car, taken her seat, and paid her fare, in…