Meisner v. Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Hosmer, J. Case by Samuel Meisner against the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Company for refusal to accept plaintiff as a passenger. There was judgment for plaintiff for the amount paid for a ticket, on a verdict directed by the court, and he brings error. The defendant is organized under chapter 175, §§ 6646-6659, 2 Comp. Laws.
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Error to Wayne; Hosmer, J. Case by Samuel Meisner against the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Company for refusal to accept plaintiff as a passenger. There was judgment for plaintiff for the amount paid for a ticket, on a verdict directed by the court, and he brings error. The defendant is organized under chapter 175, §§ 6646-6659, 2 Comp. Laws. Its articles of association declare its purpose to be “to own and operate ferries on the Detroit river, between the city of Detroit, and the towns of Walkerville, Windsor and Sandwich, Province of Ontario, and Belle Isle, and such other places on…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, C. J.
(after stating the facts). Is the defendant, in its business between Detroit and its park on Bois Blanc Island, a public common carrier of passengers, obliged by law to accept any person who offers himself as a passenger ? This is the important question in this suit. If it be answered in the affirmative, it follows that no person or corporation can own a private park, private docks, its own means of transportation, and control its pleasure grounds, and means of transportation thereto, without becoming a common carrier, obliged to transport anyone *548who presents himself as a passenger. The sole…
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