Currie v. Davis, Agent, Etc.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

'On August 31, 1919, at Florence, S. C., the plaintiff purchased a ticket entitling him to transportation as a passenger on a line of railroad then in charge of the Director General of Railroads of the United States Government, from Florence, S. C., to Mayesville, S. C. He then presented himself at the gate through which passengers were required or invited to pass in order to board trains. The gate was in charge of a gatekeeper, a railroad employee, to whom the plaintiff showed his ticket. The gatekeeper refused him passage through…