Wood v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The plaintiff sued the defendant for damages for wrongfully ejecting him from one of its trains on which he was a passenger. The question at the trial was whether the monthly commutation ticket held by the plaintiff, which the conductor refused to honor, entitled him to ride from Hoboken to Boonton, via Newark and Dover — or, to be more exact, whether he could use it on a train that was scheduled to stop at Dover, but not at Denville. Plaintiff had bought the ticket at Boonton, and had been buying such tickets for several months, and using…