Denny v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad

By the regulations of this company the conductors of all passenger trains were required to punch a hole in the passenger’s ticket, and if the passenger desired to stop over at any way station, the ticket must be indorsed by the conductor in order to entitle him to get upon another train and resume his journey upon the credit of such punched-ticket, and it was not good if not so indorsed.

Plaintiff being a passenger on defendants’ road, on an eastward bound train to New York, having a through ticket, on approaching Little Falls applied to the conductor to be let off there, and asked him to…