Carsten v. Northern Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action brought in the district court for Crow Wing county, and tried before Holland, J., and a jury, who rendered a verdict of $225 for piaintiff. A motion for a new trial was heard by Searle, J., (owing to the illness of Holland, J.,) and was denied, and the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The defendant, in August, 1888, issued excursion passenger tickets from Detroit, in this state, “to Minneapolis and return,” to be used within a time limited, but without restrictions as to transfer. The plaintiff purchased one of these tickets at secondhand of a railway ticket broker, and, in conformity with the usage of the company, had it stamped by the defendant’s agent at the depot in Minneapolis, and thereupon presented it to the baggageman, who punched it and checked his baggage, and within the time limited plaintiff took passage on a regular passenger train from Minneapolis to…
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