Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Breckinridge
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 1 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM BOYLE CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The ticket of a passenger is the only evidence that the conductor is bound to or prudently can accept as to the rights of transportation of the passenger. (37 Mich., 342; 26 Amer.
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Case 1 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM BOYLE CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The ticket of a passenger is the only evidence that the conductor is bound to or prudently can accept as to the rights of transportation of the passenger. (37 Mich., 342; 26 Amer. Rep., 531; Wood’s Railway Law, 2 vol., sec. 350.) 2 If the passenger claims any rights to further transportation under . claim of different contract than is indicated by the ticket, it is his duty, upon demand of the conductor, to pay the fare for the additional transportation, and rely upon his contract for the recovery thereof. (Wood’s Railway Law, 3…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE GUFFY
delivered the opinion oe the court.
This action was instituted in the Boyle Circuit Court by the appellee, R. J. Breckinridge, Jr., against the appellant, seeking- to recover damages for being ejected from appellant’s train of cars, and for the refusal of appellant to permit him to ride on said train from Lebanon Junction to Louisville.
It is substantially alleged in the first paragraph of the petition that appellee purchased of appellant’s agent, at New Orleans, La., a ticket from there to Junction City, Ky., and that, according to appellant’s method of running and operating its…
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