Runyan v. Central Railroad
Supreme Court of New Jersey
In tort. On error to the Supreme Court. The cause was-tried at the Union Circuit, before Hon. B. A. Vail, sitting as a Circuit judge, and a jury, at the January Term, 1900, and a verdict of $1,100 rendered for the plaintiff below.
1Opinion of the Court
*229The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dixor, J.
This suit was brought against the defendant, •as a common carrier of passengers, to recover damages for torts committed in preventing the plaintiff from taking passage tipon the defendant’s trains at Jersey City and CommunipaW. The ground on which the defendant company sought to justify the hindrance was that the plaintiff was carrying in his hands packages containing a wooden letter-file and ten pounds of nails, which the company insisted should be sent by express or as freight. In reply the plaintiff contended that under the public…
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