Blackman v. West Jersey & S. S. R. Co.

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

In August, 1901, the plaintiff, with his wife and a small child, went to Atlantic City by the Reading Railroad, having purchased excursion tickets by that route. By mistake they began the return journey in a train of the defendant company, arid the error was not discovered until their tickets were inspected at a point near Hammonton. The conductor then demanded two full fares to Camden, which the plaintiff professed his total inability to pay. There is some dispute concerning what happened’ next, but for present purposes it is unimportant to set out the two…