Powell v. Beasley

E. K. Beasley sued the receivers of the Seaboard Air-Line Bailway Company and the Pullman Company for damages, alleging that he boarded a Seaboard train at Cedartown for Birmingham, occupying a seat in a Pullman car, for which he had paid; that after he had been on the train for a short while, a man holding a bottle in his hand approached him and asked him to take a drink; that when he refused the man slapped him in the face with his right hand; that when he attempted to rise and defend himself the man struck him with his right fist on the left breast, fracturing two ribs, on his left side.…