75 Miss. 371 | Miss. | 1897
delivered the opinion of the court.
Lucretia Holmes sued the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company, seeking to recover of said companies damages for wrongfully ejecting her from the train of the former company. Being at Summit, on the line of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and desiring to go to Meridian, on the line of the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company, she applied for a ticket to Meridian. The agent at Summit received the regular fare of a ticket to Meridian, and intended to issue to her a ticket to Meridian, but by mistake issued and delivered to her a ticket to Vicksburg. By an arrangement between said companies of long standing, the agents of each company had issued coupon tickets over the initial and connecting lines, which had been uniformly honored by the connecting line, and the conductor of the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company would have honored in this instance the ticket of Lucretia Holmes if it had been issued for Meridian. The plaintiff is an unlettered woman, and not suspecting any mistake, she did not discover the mistake until her ticket was presented to the conductor of the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company for passage to Meridian. The plaintiff at Summit had her trunk checked to Meridian, and she received a check therefor which showed that her trunk was to be. carried to Meridian, and it appeared that her trunk was duly entered upon the way-bill of the company for Meridian. It was in evidence that when compelled to leave the train she had in her possession
We are of the opinion that the rulings of the circuit court are correct. They are supported by Railroad Co. v. Riley, 68 Miss. Rep., 765. It was shown that no baggage is checked unless upon a ticket presented, and the check and way-bill, if examined, would have shown to the conductor that there was a mistake, and these facts very strongly supported plaintiff’s explanation of the matter; and they cast upon the company the responsibility of taking the consequences of a wrong action.
The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.