Montgomery Light & Traction Co. v. Avant
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Gaston Gunter, Judge. Action by the Montgomery Light & Traction Company against J. P. Avant. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under Acts 1911, p. 449, § 6.
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The appeal is from a judgment for defendant in an action for street car fare.
The testimony showed that on the dates named in the complaint defendant had ridden on the cars of the plaintiff without paying the customary fare for each passage required of passengers on plaintiff’s cars.
The testimony for defendant tended to show he was a detective or “plain clothes man” on the police force of the city of Montgomery, and as such had not been required to pay for his passage on said cars until a short time before the suit was brought, when the manager of plaintiff company refused to issue a book of…
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