Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey v. Green
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1876, No. 35. Debt by John W. Green to recover the $500 penalty under the provisions of the Act of March 22d 1867, as set forth in the preceding case. This action was brought by Green alone, the evidence of exclusion being in substance what was produced in the foregoing case, wherein he was a co-plaintiff with his wife.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1876, No. 35. Debt by John W. Green to recover the $500 penalty under the provisions of the Act of March 22d 1867, as set forth in the preceding case. This action was brought by Green alone, the evidence of exclusion being in substance what was produced in the foregoing case, wherein he was a co-plaintiff with his wife. The only question in the case was that raised by the following points of defendant and the-answers of the court, Harding, P. J., thereto:— 1. That under the Act of Assembly of 22d March 1867, but one…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The plaintiff below brought an action of debt to recover the penalty of $500 under the first section of the Act of 22d March 1867, Pamph. L. 38, for excluding him from a particular car of the defendant corporation. It was alleged by the plaintiff, that himself and wife were prevented from entering one of the passenger cars of the defendant, at Wilkesbarre, on the 26th of December 1873, by one of the employees of .the company, and compelled to take another passenger car of the same train in order to proceed to their home, *430a distance of two miles. The’re was neither allegation nor proof that…
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