Cone v. Central Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummebe, J.

Plaintiff, on the 12th day of April, 1897, purchased at the Communipaw avenue station of the defend*100ant, in Jersey City, an excursion ticket to Elizabethport, to which place he went, and upon his return boarded a train of the defendant without first ascertaining by inquiry or otherwise if the train would stop at the Communipaw avenue station, where he desired to alight and to which station he held a ticket. The train he boarded was an express train and was not scheduled to stop at any station between Elizabethport and the terminal in Jersey…