H. & T. C. R. R. v. Rand
H. & T. C. R. R. v. Rand
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
§ 255. Railroad; liability of company for damages occasioned by carelessness, inattention and neglect of agent. Where a married woman, just recovered from a spell of sickness, and desirous of returning to her home and family, applied to the ticket agent of a railroad for a ticket and transportation over said road, and offered to pay said agent the price of said ticket, this occurring about ten o’clock at night, and a few minutes before the train passed the station; but that, owing to the carelessness and inattention of the ticket agent, she failed to get her ticket, and the agent also failing to signal the train
Affirmed, with damages.
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