L. R. & F. S. Railway v. Dean
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pope Circuit Court. Hon. J. P. Wood, Special Judge. 1. So long as railroads are run on their published time table, parties purchasing tickets and contracting for transportation must take notice of the rules. And if they fail to do so they cannot ask the court to relieve them from their contract, and to make contracts for them.
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APPEAL from Pope Circuit Court. Hon. J. P. Wood, Special Judge. 1. So long as railroads are run on their published time table, parties purchasing tickets and contracting for transportation must take notice of the rules. And if they fail to do so they cannot ask the court to relieve them from their contract, and to make contracts for them. Thompson on Carriers of Pass., p. 68, Sec. 4, and p. 70, Sec. 6. 2. The verdict was excessive, and the jury misdirected as to the measure of damages. There was nothiag in the evidence on which to base an instruction as to damages or injury to appellee’s…
1Opinion of the CourtCockeill, C. J.
The appellee purchased a ticket from Middleton, Tennessee, from the agent of the Memphis & Charleston Eailway, via said railway, the Memphis and Little Eock Eailway, and the appellant’s railway to Eussellville, Arkansas, on the first day of September, 1882. The ticket was limited on its face to the third of September. According to the regulations of the several roads as to the time of running trains, appellee should have reached Little Eock at 1 A. M. on the second of September, and in time to take the morning train on appellant’s road, but although he arrived on that day at Argenta, no train…
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