Seaboard A. L. Ry. Co. v. Patrick
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. C. B. Smith. Action by J. J. Patrick against the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, for damages for failure to transport him as a passenger. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. C. B. Smith. Action by J. J. Patrick against the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, for damages for failure to transport him as a passenger. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. Charge 10 is as follows: The court charges the jury that if you believe from the evidence that plaintiff, when the conductor on the Alabama Great Southern Railway Company told him that he would have to pay his fare on the train from Birmingham to Meridian or get off the train, and that . he could not honor…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
On July 3, 1910, in response to the plaintiff’s application' for a ticket to Dallas, Tex., the defendant’s agent at Athens, Ga., sold him a ticket from that place to Dallas, the route specified in the ticket being over the defendant’s line to Birmingham, Ala., from Birmingham to Meridian over the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, and from Meridian to Dallas over other roads. On this ticket the plaintiff was carried to Birmingham by the defendant, and there boarded an Alabama Great Southern Railroad train for Meridian. *344The conductor of that train refused to accept or honor the ticket for…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Werten v. K. B. Koosa & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1910
- Central of Ga. Ry. Co. v. MorganSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. ThomasonAlabama Court of Appeals · 1912
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- Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. VermillionAlabama Court of Appeals · 1917
- Southern Ry. Co. v. PennyAlabama Court of Appeals · 1927
- Wilkes v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1924