Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Friend

...Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

— Reversing.

C. E. Friend sued the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company in the Floyd Circuit Court to recover damages for an alleged wrongful expulsion of plaintiff from one of defendant company’s passenger trains. The jury returned a verdict in his favor in the sum of one thousand dollars. The railroad company appeals.

Friend testified that he was a resident of Prestonsburg in Floyd County; that his age was thirty-four years; that on December 21, 1911, he went from Prestonsburg to Catlettsburg on one of defendant company’s passenger trains; that he bought a…