Harris v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to Morris Common Pleas.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
This is an action for conversion of a commutation ticket. The defendants are the railroad company and the conductor who took up the ticket. They justify upon the ground that the plaintiff had allowed other persons than himself to travel thereon, and that, by the terms of the ticket, it was thereby forfeited. The ticket was in the possession of the plaintiff himself at the time. There was testimony on the part of the defendants that two other persons had traveled upon the same ticket a few days before. There was an offer to prove that the…
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- Meagher v. DriscollMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- State v. RaymondSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1891
- Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. EvansIndiana Supreme Court · 1907
- Knowlden v. Guardian Printing & Publishing Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1903
- State v. SnoverSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1900
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