St. Clair v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad
St. Clair v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The demurrer admits it to be true that “the stipulations in the ticket plaintiff never signed or assented to, and that plaintiff. never knew of their existence until recently,” etc. The ticket (made an exhibit) shows it was never signed. But the demurrer admits also that no such contract was ever “assented to.” That is the end of the argument on this point. The case of Alabama, etc., Ry. Co. v. Holmes, 75 Miss., 388, was a case which went to the ]ury on proof that such a contract was made. It was wholly out of place when cited in support of a demurrer which admits that no such contract was ever “assented to.” But, further, the demurrer admits that the employes and officers of the Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. aided the quarantine officers in the alleged wrongful treatment, and that ‘‘ when plaintiff bought his ticket from the agent of defendant the said agent informed plaintiff that he could go through on said ticket to the city of Tallahassee without hindrance from quarantine regulations or other causes; that the quarantine regulations of no state he had to pass through
Reversed, demurrer overruled and remanded.
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