Ritchie v. Illinois Central Railroad

This action was instituted in the district court against the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company to recover for alleged personal injuries received by plaintiff while a passenger over the defendants’ lines of railroad. The material facts were that plaintiff purchased a round-trip ticket *632from the agent of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, at its ticket office in Omaha, for passage from Omaha to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and return. The ticket purchased was the usual coupon ticket, Omaha “to Minneapolis or St. Paul, Minn., and return, via route…