Shelton v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.
Ohio Supreme Court
Motion for leave to file a petition in error to reverse the judgment of the District Court of Lorain county. On the 16th day of July, 1878, the plaintiff and his son, Simeon T. Shelton, bought of the defendant a commutation ticket, of which the following is a copy : “ LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY. . Commutation Ticket. Good for twenty rides between Vermilion and Cleveland, for Wm. T. Shelton or Simeon T. Shelton, as per conditions on the back.
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Motion for leave to file a petition in error to reverse the judgment of the District Court of Lorain county. On the 16th day of July, 1878, the plaintiff and his son, Simeon T. Shelton, bought of the defendant a commutation ticket, of which the following is a copy : “ LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY. . Commutation Ticket. Good for twenty rides between Vermilion and Cleveland, for Wm. T. Shelton or Simeon T. Shelton, as per conditions on the back. J. W. Cary, 197 General Ticket Agent. 1ST. 3. — Conductors will punch for each trip, and take up ticket when used up or expired.” The…
1Opinion of the CourtRex, J.
It is assigned as the principal ground for the-reversal of the judgment of affirmance of the district court that the court of common pleas erred in its instructions-to the jury.
"We do not- think so.
The removal of the plaintiff from the cars by the conductor of the afternoon train for refusing on demand to produce a ticket or pay fare for his passage from Cleveland to Vermilion was, under the rules of the defendant, a proper exercise by the conductor of the rights of the defendant, and for which, when exercised in such manner as to do no unnecessary injury to the person removed, the defendant…
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