Hartan v. Eastern Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort to recover damages for a personal hurt received upon the Maine Central Railroad while the plaintiff was travelling from Boston to St. John, New Brunswick, upon a through ticket purchased of the defendant.
Read the full summary
Tort to recover damages for a personal hurt received upon the Maine Central Railroad while the plaintiff was travelling from Boston to St. John, New Brunswick, upon a through ticket purchased of the defendant. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Wilkinson, J., the plaintiff offered to prove the following facts, and they were thereupon admitted by the defendant: That the plaintiff, on the evening of December 18,1871, purchased of the defendant corporation, at its station in Boston, a ticket for St. John, New Brunswick; that he took a seat in Boston, in a car belonging to the defendant;…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
Arrangements between connecting roads, forming a; continuous line, by which passengers are enabled to procure ‘‘ through tickets ” at the point of starting, and to proceed to their destination, beyond the line of the first road, without changing cars, are required for the accommodation of the public, as well as the convenience of the roads themselves. Such arrangements do not imply joint interests or joint responsibility.
The "written contract, in this case, between the Maine Central Railroad and the Eastern and the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroads, merely provides for the mode of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hill Manufacturing Co. v. Boston & Lowell RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
3Cited by15 opinions
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. ConnellIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. LooneyTexas Supreme Court · 1892
- Mills v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. RoachSupreme Court of Kansas · 1886
- Irvin v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1879
10 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.