Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific R. R. v. Carson

*82Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson

¡Reversing.

On August 30th, 1904, M. B. Carson and F. G-. Carson bought tickets from the station agent at Moreland, Kentucky, for a round trip to Somerset and return. They were informed by the agent when they bought the tickets that they were good for a return trip until September 3,1904. On the 3rd of September they got on the train at Somerset to return to Moreland. The conductor refused to honor their return- tickets on the ground that they had expired. They declined to pay and he put them off the- train at the next station seven miles from…