Kentucky Central R. R. v. Houston
Kentucky Central R. R. v. Houston
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The weight of the testimony conduces to show that the appellee had purchased a ticket for his passage from Falmouth to Catauba. It is immaterial whether the ticket was obtained at Falmouth of the agent of the company or from its agent at Cataubaj if from an agent authorized to sell tickets his acts must bind the company. The proof shows that appellee was much intoxicated but still conducting himself in a proper manner except in insisting that he had paid his fare. This statement was the result of his drinking and in every other respect his demeanor was as unobjectionable so far as the proof shows as that of any other passenger. His friends, who were on the way to the same town with him, were under the impression that he had a ticket and some of them saw it in his hand, and it is certain that one was found on the ground at the place where he was ejected from the cars. His. friends interposed when they saw that the conductor was about to put appellee off the train and offered to pay his fare, which was ten cents, but the conductor refused to receive it, not for the reason that the party proffering to pay had no money, but because the appellee, to use the conductor’s
Judgment affirmed.
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