Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw R. R. v. Patterson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Adams county; the Hon. Joseph Sibley, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was an action on the case, brought by the appellee against the railway company for expelling him from one of its freight trains.
On the 6th of June, 1870, at Ferris, a village of eight or ten houses, the appellee entered what is called the caboose car, attached to a freight train on the appellant’s road, for the purpose of being carried a short distance. About a week or ten days prior to this time, the company had made a rule or regulation, forbidding the conductors of their freight trains to receive fare from passengers, or to carry on such trains any passenger who had not a ticket. A…
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