Andrews v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad

Citations

• 86 Miss. 129

Syllabus

<p>1. Raileoads. Intending passenger. Assault and hattery. Station agent.</p> <p>A railroad company is not liable to a plaintiff who, intending to take a train not due for more than one hour, for which he had not purchased a ticket, obtained permission from the station agent to do some writing in the office of the station, and while there became involved with the agent in an altercation over a private matter in which the agent committed an assault and battery on him.</p> <p>2. Same. Code 1892, \\ 4313.</p> <p>Such a case is not aided by Code 1892, § 4313, requiring railroad companies to furnish suitable reception rooms and keep them open for one hour before the arrival and for half an hour after the departure of passenger trains, and to protect passengers therein from offensive conduct, since the statute has no application to the case.</p>