Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Holmes
Mississippi Supreme Court
Feom the-circuit court, first district, of Hinds county. Hon. Robert Rowell, Judge. Plaintiff, Lucretia Holmes, sued the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company jointly; she recovered a judgment for five hundred dollars ■against the former company only, the court of original jurisdiction, by its instructions, deciding the latter company not to be liable.
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Feom the-circuit court, first district, of Hinds county. Hon. Robert Rowell, Judge. Plaintiff, Lucretia Holmes, sued the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company jointly; she recovered a judgment for five hundred dollars ■against the former company only, the court of original jurisdiction, by its instructions, deciding the latter company not to be liable. The first named company appealed to the supreme court, and the plaintiff appealed to the same court from the judgment discharging the last named company from liability to her. The declaration shows a case…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
Lucretia Holmes sued the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company, seeking to recover of said companies damages for wrongfully ejecting her from the train of the former company. Being at Summit, on the line of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and desiring to go to Meridian, on the line of the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company, she applied for a ticket to Meridian. The agent at Summit received the regular fare of a ticket to Meridian, and intended to issue to her a ticket to Meridian, but by mistake issued and delivered to her a ticket to Vicksburg.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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