Evans v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Horner, J. A time may be limited upon a ticket, after which it is of no value; and where a ticket expires of a certain date, if a passenger refuse to pay the regular fare upon request, he may be ejected. — Boston v. Broctor, 1 Allen, 267 ; Ripley v. Railroad Co., 31 N. J. L. 388; Hill v. Railroad Co., 63 N. Y. 101; Sherman v. Railroad Co., 40 Iowa, 45 ; Lillis v. Railroad Co., 64 Mo. 464; Brown v. Railroad Co., 64 Mo. 536. There is in…
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Horner, J. A time may be limited upon a ticket, after which it is of no value; and where a ticket expires of a certain date, if a passenger refuse to pay the regular fare upon request, he may be ejected. — Boston v. Broctor, 1 Allen, 267 ; Ripley v. Railroad Co., 31 N. J. L. 388; Hill v. Railroad Co., 63 N. Y. 101; Sherman v. Railroad Co., 40 Iowa, 45 ; Lillis v. Railroad Co., 64 Mo. 464; Brown v. Railroad Co., 64 Mo. 536. There is in this case no evidence of a wanton, reckless, or oppressive action on the part of the conductor Webb towards the…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
The plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant for $250 damages for ejecting him from one of its passenger trains. It appears that on the twenty-sixth day of February, 1881, he purchased of a ticket broker at the Union Depot, in St. Louis, an emigrant ticket from St. Louis to Little Rock, which had been originally issued bv the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company on account of the defendant. This ticket contained the following clause: “The holder hereof, in consideration of the reduced rates at which this ticket is sold, agrees with the respective companies over whose roads such…
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