Illinois Central Railroad v. Cunningham

Citations

• 67 Ill. 316

Syllabus

<p>Excessive damages—case for gutting passenger off train. Where the plaintiff applied to the office of the defendant railway company for a ticket, but could get no answer, and then took passage on a train carrying passengers, and explained to the conductor the fact of his inability to procure a ticket, and was put off the train in the night time, not at any regular station or usual stopping place, and compelled to walk back: Held, in an action to recover for the wrong, that a verdict of $500 damages was excessive.</p>