Billinger v. Clyde S. S. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Motion by defendant to set aside the verdicts in this case in favor of the plaintiffs, and for new trials on exceptions to the charge of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
The evidence in these cases, tried together with a separate verdict in each, was substantially undisputed that the defendant is a corporation engaged in running steamers carrying passengers between the state of Florida and the state of New York. It is a common carrier of passengers. That in the month of March,, 1903, it sold to each of the plaintiffs a ticket for a second-class passage from Jacksonville, Fla., to the city of New York, with the right and privilege to stop off at the port of Charleston, S. C., and go on to New York by some other steamer on that line at a…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Lynch v. Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1882
- Bass v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
- Sanford v. . Eighth Avenue Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1861
- Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. WilliamsIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
- English v. . Delaware and Hudson Canal Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1876
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