Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Greenwood
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of Octo-ber and November Term 1875, No. 135. This action was in case and was brought November 23d 1873, by J. L. Greenwood and Sarah E., his wife, in her right, against The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of Octo-ber and November Term 1875, No. 135. This action was in case and was brought November 23d 1873, by J. L. Greenwood and Sarah E., his wife, in her right, against The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. The cause of action was removing Mrs. Greenwood from one of the way freight train cars of the plaintiff at a distance from a station, because she had no ticket, although she offered to pay the conductor the proper fare. She was removed under the following rule of the company “ Notice. — On and after February 1st 1873,…
1Opinion of the Court
Judgmentwas entered in the Supreme Court, November 1st 1875,
Per, Curiam.
The rule as to the purchase of tickets before entering into the car of the way freight train was entirely reasonable. But the plaintiff having use'd this car often before the adoption of the rule, and indeed afterwards, without objection for the want of a ticket, the company could not turn her out of the car and land her off a mile or so from the station without proof of express notice, or her actual knowledge of the existence of the rule forbidding any one to enter the car without a ticket. The putting up such notices in…
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