Keeley v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report from the superior court. Case, setting out in substance and in extended legal form and phraseology that the defendants were common carriers of passengers ; that the plaintiff purchased two tickets, one of the following form : “163. Issued by Grand Trunk R. R., and Boston & Maine R. R., Portland to Boston. Yalid only within seven days. First class.
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On report from the superior court. Case, setting out in substance and in extended legal form and phraseology that the defendants were common carriers of passengers ; that the plaintiff purchased two tickets, one of the following form : “163. Issued by Grand Trunk R. R., and Boston & Maine R. R., Portland to Boston. Yalid only within seven days. First class. Form 39. J. Hickson, General Manager, 3376,” and another, similar in form, but which he is unable to describe ; that be entered the defendants’ ears at Portland for Boston whither he wTas carried; that he gave up the “similar” ticket on…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
This case presents this question: Does a railroad ticket, with the words “Portland to Boston” imprinted on it, purchased in Portland under no contract other than what is inferable from the ticket itself, entitle the holder to a passage, on the road of the company issuing it, from Boston to Portland ? Does a ticket one way give the right to pass the other way instead? We find no case deciding that it does, nor do we assent to the proposition that the law should be considered to be so. Such is not the contract which the ticket is evidence of.
It has been held that, if a passenger purchases a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Wakefield v. South Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- Shedd v. Troy & Boston RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1868