Ligon v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Dunklin Circuit Court. — Hon. W. S. C. Walker, Judge. (1) Any agreement or arrangement the plaintiff had with the agent who sold the ticket which expressly or impliedly attempted to authorize the plaintiff to be carried for less than the regular interstate tariff rates between interstate points was void and gave plaintiff no right to be so carried.
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Appeal from Dunklin Circuit Court. — Hon. W. S. C. Walker, Judge. (1) Any agreement or arrangement the plaintiff had with the agent who sold the ticket which expressly or impliedly attempted to authorize the plaintiff to be carried for less than the regular interstate tariff rates between interstate points was void and gave plaintiff no right to be so carried. Sections 2, 3 and 10', Interstate Commerce Act; Bailroad v. Motley, 219 U. S. 467; Dunne & Grace v. Bailroad, 148 S. W. 997; Bail-road v. Cotton Oil Co., 204 U. S. 426 ; Armour Packing- Co. v. U. S., 209 H. S. 56; Adams Ex. Co. v. U. S,…
1Opinion of the Court
REYNOLDS, P. J.-
Plaintiff, intending to go from Leachville, Arkansas, to Gideon, Missouri, byway of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, purchased a ticket, for which he paid $1.20. The distance from Leachville to Kennett is twenty-five miles, and from Kennett to Gideon it is about twenty-three miles, a total of forty-eight miles, and the legal rate being two and a half cents a mile, $1.20' was the legal amount over that route. The ticket which plaintiff purchased at Leachville was a local, single trip ticket, good for one first-class passage from Leachville, Arkansas, to Gideon, Missouri,…
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