Case ID: ga-app_2/html/0374-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

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    McCook v. Dublin & Southwestern Railroad Company.
    Action for damages, from city court of Dublin — Judge Clements presiding. March 7, 1907.
    Submitted June 25,
    Decided July 18, 1907.
   Hill, C. J.

1. It is the duty of passengers to supply themselves with tickets before getting on the trains.”

2. Where a passenger, without fault of the railroad company, but solely beeause of his own lack of reasonable diligence, fails to buy a ticket, he is not entitled to transportation without paying the train rate; and if he refuses to pay such rate, the company can lawfully eject him. \ .

3. The plaintiff’s own testimony clearly shows that he had no cause'of rction, and that his case was utterly without merit. The nonsuit w- s properly granted. Judgment affirmed.

K. J. Hawkins, for plaintiff.

Peyton L. Wade, Daley & Bussey, for defendant.