Isaacson v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.

The plaintiff failed to establish a contract by the defendant to carry him and his baggage from New York to New Orleans, via the "Mobile route" from Niagara Falls, as alleged in the complaint. On the contrary the proof conclusively negatived the existence of a through contract by the defendant. The only contract between the plaintiff and defendant for the carriage of the former was made at Niagara Falls, about July 1, 1876, through the purchase there by the plaintiff, of tickets for himself and family over the defendant's road from Niagara Falls to the city of New York, and from the latter…