Oil Creek & Allegheny River Railway Co. v. Clark
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: No. 49, to October and November Term 1872. This was an action on the case, brought to September Term 1870 of the court below by Samuel J. Clark, against “The Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway Company.”
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: No. 49, to October and November Term 1872. This was an action on the case, brought to September Term 1870 of the court below by Samuel J. Clark, against “The Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway Company.” The plaintiff’s cause of action was the putting him off the cars of the defendants under the following circumstances: The plaintiff had bought a car ticket from a station on defendants’ road called “Miller Farm” to go to Oil City, a distance of 12 miles; the ticket was as follows: OIL CREEK & ALLEGHENY R. R’WAY. O. C. & A. R. R. WAY…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Agnew, J.
— This case was heard and decided by the learned president of the court below, before the decision of this court, at Harrisburg in May last, in case of Deitrick v. The Penna. R. R. Co., 21 P. F. Smith 432. The principles there ruled govern the question before us, and require a reversal of the judgment below. A ticket such as that printed in our paper-book imports upon its face no right to stop off, or in other words to make the journey, between the points named in it by stages, and by different trains. It is simply a ticket from the station…
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