Elder v. International Railway Co.

The plaintiff boarded a street ear on defendant’s line at the foot of Main street, in the city of Buffalo. He intended transferring from the Main street car to an Elmwood avenue ‘car of the defendant company. It seems that the point for transferring such passengers, as established by the rules of the defendant, is at the junction of Exchange and Main streets, where the Elmwood avenue car turns into Main street. Owing, however, to the crowded condition of the Main street car, the conductor did not take the fare of the plaintiff until after the car had passed Exchange street. The plaintiff,…