Spencer v. Lovejoy
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Yan Epps. City court of Atlanta. September term, 1894. Lovejoy brought suit against the receivers of the Richmond & Danville Railroad Co., for illegal ejection from a passenger-train which he entered at Atlanta, Ca-, to-go to “Washington, D. C. The ticket which he presented for passage was as follows: “Issued by Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad. Crand Army of the Republic. Excursion Ticket.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Yan Epps. City court of Atlanta. September term, 1894. Lovejoy brought suit against the receivers of the Richmond & Danville Railroad Co., for illegal ejection from a passenger-train which he entered at Atlanta, Ca-, to-go to “Washington, D. C. The ticket which he presented for passage was as follows: “Issued by Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad. Crand Army of the Republic. Excursion Ticket. Cood for one first class passage to Washington, D. C., and return. Subject to the following contract: 1st. When officially stamped and presented with coupons…
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
1. Under the facts recited in the first head-note, and which were duly and legally proved, it is quite certain that the plaintiff made out at least a prima facie case establishing the agency of the initial company for the receiver in issuing the ticket upon which the plaintiff' was riding when he was expelled from the defendant’s train.
2. The authorities settle beyond question, that where-a through railroad ticket has attached to it separate and distinct coupons for each of several lines of railway owned by different companies, the person entitled to-use the ticket has, in…
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