Shortsleeves v. Capital Traction Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
HbaeiNg on an appeal by tbe plaintiff from a judgment on .a verdict of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in an action to recover damages from a street railway company for the alleged unlawful ejection of tbe plaintiff from a car of the defendant. Tbe Court in the opinion stated tbe facts as follows: This is a suit instituted by the appellant, Frederick Short-sleeves, against the appellee, the Capital Traction Company.
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HbaeiNg on an appeal by tbe plaintiff from a judgment on .a verdict of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in an action to recover damages from a street railway company for the alleged unlawful ejection of tbe plaintiff from a car of the defendant. Tbe Court in the opinion stated tbe facts as follows: This is a suit instituted by the appellant, Frederick Short-sleeves, against the appellee, the Capital Traction Company. The declaration, which is in trespass, charges that the appellant was unlawfully ejected from one of the appellee’s cars on June 17, 1905, by the conductor of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McComas
The main assignment of error was the refusal of the court to grant four instructions asked by the appellant.
The appellant paid his fare and accepted a green transfer, which on its face was good for his transfer from the Pennsylvania avenue line at the point of change, Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, to the F and G street line, and the green transfer was punched on the line thereon reading, “To Seventeenth street at Pa. avenue.” It was his duty to remain on the Pennsylvania avenue line car until he reached Seventeenth street. He had no right to leave the car at Fifteenth street and…
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- Mosher v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Boylan v. Hot Springs RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Bradshaw v. South Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. v. LindemanCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1906
- Stone v. C. & N. W. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1877
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