Southern Pacific Co. v. Patterson

JAMES, Chief Justice.

The appellee brought this suit to recover damages, actual and exemplary, for requiring him to pay the sum of fifty cents as fare over the Pecos bridge. Plaintiff purchased at El Paso a 1000-mile ticket, for $25, over the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Bailway lines, it being a contract signed by plaintiff, and among other provisions it had written upon it in legible letters, “Not good over Pecos bridge,” and also providing, that no agent or employe of any of the lines named on the ticket should have power to alter, modify, or waive in any manner any of the conditions…