Campopiano v. Rhode Island Co.

This is an action of trespass on the case brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff through the refusal of the conductor, in charge of one of the defendant’s cars, to accept in payment of fare a Columbian half dollar, so-called, the same being legal tender of the United States of America.

The plaintiff being a passenger upon one of defendant’s cars offered to the conductor thereof, in payment of his fare, what is known as a Columbian half dollar. The conductor, presumably being unacquainted with that particular and sporadic coinage, refused to accept the same…