Pennsylvania Railroad v. Sly
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county: No. 375, to January Term 1870. This was an action of trespass (assault and battery) by Oscar Sly against The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, commenced May 4th 1869. Early in the morning of April 29th 1869, the plaintiff came to the Sheffield station on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, of which the defendants were the lessees, to take passage to Warren, a distance of 13 miles.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county: No. 375, to January Term 1870. This was an action of trespass (assault and battery) by Oscar Sly against The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, commenced May 4th 1869. Early in the morning of April 29th 1869, the plaintiff came to the Sheffield station on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, of which the defendants were the lessees, to take passage to Warren, a distance of 13 miles. The office was not open and the agent not there, and he was unable to procure a ticket. He got on the train without one, and when called on by the conductor tendered…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, April 4th 1870, by
Sharswood, J.
The Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company was incorporated by an Act of Assembly passed April 3d 1837, Pamph. L. 170. It was invested with all the usual powers of a railroad corporation for constructing a road from Sunbury by the most eligible route to the harbor of Erie. There was granted to it all such liberties, privileges and franchises, “ necessary or incident to the making and maintaining the said railroad, convenient construction of depots, such cars, locomotives, fixtures and devices as may be necessary for the…
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