Illinois Central R. R. v. Whittemore

This was an action of trespass, brought by Whittemore against the Illinois Central Railroad company and H. W. Cole, a conductor in the service of the company, for wrongfully expelling the plaintiff from a train. It appears, the plaintiff had taken passage from Decatur to El Paso, and had procured the necessary ticket. After the train passed Kappa, the station preceding El Paso, the conductor demanded the plaintiff’s ticket, which the latter refused to surrender without a check. This the conductor refused to give, and after some controversy with the plaintiff, stopped the train and with the…