Bass v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

The plaintiff, a young man residing at the time at Kalamazoo, purchased an excursion ticket to Benton Harbor over the Michigan Central and defendant’s' roads. On the return trip the plaintiff rode in the smoking car and a number of passengers in that coach were riotous *178and disorderly, to a degree that merited severe measures in suppressing their disorder. An altercation with the conductor resulted, and, while the train stopped at the last station but one on the trip, one of the young men procured an ax helve, and it was carried on the car to Niles, where the plaintiff and other young men were…