Wright v. Payne

Citations

• 127 Miss. 565
• 90 So. 248

Syllabus

<p>CARRIERS. Whether ticket agent, causing arrest of passenger, was acting in carrier’s business and within scope of employment held for jury,.</p> <p>Where, as a result of a controversy over the price of a ticket purchased by a passenger, the agent of a' railroad company caused the arrest of the passenger who was waiting on the depot platform for the arrival of a train upon which he intended to take passage, and the testimony as to the acts and conduct of the agent, and the circumstances of the arrest, is conflicting, the question of whether, in causing the arrest, the agent was acting in the master’s business and within the scope of his employment is one for the determination of the jury.</p>