Jackson v. Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court, first district, of Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. Aurelia Jackson, the appellant, a woman, was the plaintiff in the court below; the railway company, the appellee, was defendant there. A demurrer was interposed by defendant to the declaration; the court below sustained the same, and, plaintiff not asking to amend, dismissed the suit. The plaintiff appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court, first district, of Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. Aurelia Jackson, the appellant, a woman, was the plaintiff in the court below; the railway company, the appellee, was defendant there. A demurrer was interposed by defendant to the declaration; the court below sustained the same, and, plaintiff not asking to amend, dismissed the suit. The plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. The averments of the declaration are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. Plaintiff was a passenger, and as such was entitled to the rights and privileges of passengers.…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
Very briefly stated the declaration filed by the appellant in the court below alleges that she boarded, at a switch or flag station, on the line of appellee’s railway about four miles west of the town of Clinton, a regular station, soon after nightfall, on November 20, 1898, a passenger train as a passenger in good faith, bound for Jackson, having, as she believed, largely more money than was requisite to pay her fare on the train. No ticket was purchased before boarding the train, as there was no station house or ticket office kept by the railway company at said flag station or switch. Soon…
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