Bennett v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.

The plaintiff purchased a ticket at Buffalo for Lockport, and a ticket from Lockport to Troy. The ticket indicates no particular route. It was simply a ticket from "Lockport to Troy." The evidence was undisputed on the trial that all through trains passed over the direct road between Rochester and Syracuse, passing through Palmyra, Lyons and Clyde, a distance of eighty-one miles. The old road (so-called) between Rochester and Syracuse is 104 miles passing through Auburn. The trains for that road are made up at each end and terminate at each end. It is practically a way route, and not a…