Mullins v. Illinois Central Railroad

Citations

• 93 Miss. 184
• 46 So. 529

Syllabus

<p>1. Railroads. Carriers. Trespasser. Ejection. Refusing to pay fare. Crippled hoy. Kindly passenger's offer.</p> <p>Where a ten-year-old crippled hoy boarded a train without a ticket, intending not to pay fare, and was ejected, he cannot predicate a right of action of the fact that a kindly disposed passenger, after the train had been slowed down and practically stopped for the ejection, offered to pay his fare from the point at which he boarded the train to his destination.</p> <p>2. Same. Forfeiture of right to carriage.</p> <p>A person who enters a railroad train, without a ticket, forfeits all • right to passage thereon by refusing to pay fare and permitting the train to be slowed down for his ejection.</p>