Johnson v. Concord Railroad
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for removing the plaintiff from a car of tlie defendant. The plaintiff introduced a deposition, taken at Chicago, August 6, 1862, of Henry G. Wentworth, who testified as follows: I am and have been for about eight years, ticket agent of the Michigan Centra] R. R. at Chicago, 111., which railroad runs from Chicago to Detroit. [The following part of the deposition was introduced subject to the defendant’s exception.] Ever since I was in said business I have been…
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Case, for removing the plaintiff from a car of tlie defendant. The plaintiff introduced a deposition, taken at Chicago, August 6, 1862, of Henry G. Wentworth, who testified as follows: I am and have been for about eight years, ticket agent of the Michigan Centra] R. R. at Chicago, 111., which railroad runs from Chicago to Detroit. [The following part of the deposition was introduced subject to the defendant’s exception.] Ever since I was in said business I have been accustomed to sell passenger tickets for the conveyance of passengers from Chicago to Springfield, Mass., Worcester, Nashua,…
1Opinion of the Court
Bartlett, J.*
Whether or not in the absence of evidence as to any regulations or usage of the defendants, the plaintiff, upon the purchase of a ticket from Concord to Nashua, would be held entitled merely to a continuous passage and by the next train, and whether he would have had legal ground of complaint if the cars had not stopped at Manchester, are questions that need not be considered in this case. By the purchase of such a ticket from the defendants and payment for it the plaintiff would become entitled to be carried , by the defendants over their railroad from Concord to Nashua; and if,…
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