Pittsb. C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Lyon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
F/RROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. No. 145 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 75 August Term 1885, C. P. On May 22, 1887, a summons in case was served upon tbe agent of tbe defendant company at Washington, Pa., in a suit by Prof. James A. Lyon against tbe Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company. Tbe defendant pleaded, not guilty.
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F/RROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. No. 145 October Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 75 August Term 1885, C. P. On May 22, 1887, a summons in case was served upon tbe agent of tbe defendant company at Washington, Pa., in a suit by Prof. James A. Lyon against tbe Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company. Tbe defendant pleaded, not guilty. At the trial on October 27,1887, tbe facts appeared in evidence that the plaintiff on March 24, 1885, desiring to go to New Orleans, applied to defendant company’s agent at Washington, Pa., for a ticket to Birmingham, a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mu. Justice Stebbett.
One of the questions presented for our consideration is whether the regulation of the railway company in conformity to which its agents refused to sell plaintiff below a ticket to Birmingham station, and to check or deliver his baggage there, is unreasonable and therefore unlawful.
The facts, upon which that and subordinate questions depend, are undisputed. It appears from the evidence that the company has five passenger stations within the corporate limits of Pittsburgh, viz.: Temperanceville, Point Bridge, Birmingham, Fourth Avenue and Union Depot, the eastern…
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