Armstrong v. Pullman Co.

Citations

• 108 Miss. 25
• 66 So. 283

Syllabus

<p>1. Carriers. Carriage of passéngers. Loss of tickets. Ejection of passenger. Instructions. Punitive damages.</p> <p>The conductor of a Pullman car is not called upon to accept the statement of a would be passenger thereon, even though supported hy the statement of another passenger, that he had purchased a ticket and had lost it, and the company is not liable for the refusal of accommodations to such passenger, if such refusal was reasonable.</p> <p>2. Carriers. Ejection of passengers. Instructions.</p> <p>An instruction that a passenger who had lost his sleeping car ticket could not recover for the refusal of accommodations to him, if such refusal was reasonable, although the jury might believe the conductor might have given the passenger a berth as a matter of courtesy, is not made erroneous by the reference. to the giving of a herth by courtesy.</p> <p>3. Carriers. Ejection of passengers. Punitive damages.</p> <p>It was not error to refuse an instruction on punitive damages, where the conductor refused to permit a passenger who had lost his ticket, to occupy a lower berth in a sleeping car, because the conductor’s diagram showed that such berths were all taken, hut offered him an upper berth, which the passenger refused to take.</p>