Erie R. v. Littell
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon writ of error by defendant in the court below to review the rulings, refusals to charge, and certain portions of the charge of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York on the trial of an action at law brought by Isabella M. Littell, a resident of the state of New Jersey, against the defendant, to recover damages for having been put…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon writ of error by defendant in the court below to review the rulings, refusals to charge, and certain portions of the charge of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York on the trial of an action at law brought by Isabella M. Littell, a resident of the state of New Jersey, against the defendant, to recover damages for having been put off its train while a passenger thereon between New York City and Hohokus, N. J.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
On the morning of November 18, 1899, the plaintiff purchased a ticket from Hohokus to Paterson and return. After having stopped at Paterson, she left there for New York in the afternoon of the same day, having purchased a ticket from Paterson to New York and return. That night she left New York by the 10:30 train for Hohokus. When the conductor demanded her ticket, she handed him a ticket, numbered 118, and which read as follows: “New York, Lake Erie & Western R. R. Co. 'Phis ticket at reduced fare is only valid for one continuous passage from New York to Hohokus. W.…
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- New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Winter's AdministratorSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Murdock v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
- Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. v. PaceSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Park Bros. & Co. v. BushnellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1894
- Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad v. RiceCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1885
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