Ruggles v. Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Complaint before a justice of the peace in Illinois against Buggies for assault and battery upon one Lewis. Lewis came on board a train on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad without a ticket. He tendered Buggies, the conductor, fare at the rate of three cents a mile. Buggies refused to recede it and demanded the established rate of the company, which was more.
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IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Complaint before a justice of the peace in Illinois against Buggies for assault and battery upon one Lewis. Lewis came on board a train on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad without a ticket. He tendered Buggies, the conductor, fare at the rate of three cents a mile. Buggies refused to recede it and demanded the established rate of the company, which was more. Lewis not paying this, Buggies attempted at the next station, but without violence, to remove him from the train. This was the alleged assault. Buggies was convicted. The…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
In the view we take of. this case, the only question that need be considered is, whether the charter of the Central Military Tract Railroad Company, one of the Illinois corporations which, through agreements of consolidation, are now represented by the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Com-, pany, purports on its face to grant to the company the right to fix the rates of fare and freight to be charged for the conveyance of persons and property on its railroad, free of all control by the State. If, on examination, we find that no such grant was intended, it will be unnecessary to decide…
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