Legal Opinion

Keen v. Detroit Electric Railway

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided March 6, 1900PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Error to Wayne; Hosmer, J. Case by Williston A. Keen against the Detroit Electric Railway for an alleged wrongful ejection from a street car. From a judgment for defendant on verdict directed by the court, plaintiff brings error.

1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.

Plaintiff, on September 13, 1897, took one of defendant’s cars at the Chamber of Commerce in Detroit to ride up to the corner of Fourteenth and Warren avenues, to go thence east on Warren avenue. He had been in the habit of going this way for some time, and had always been furnished with a transfer east on Warren. On the day in question he took a transfer east on Warren, and tendered it to the conductor of that car, who refused to take it, as it was a ticket good on the Cross-Town cars only, and was so marked. While on the Fourteenth-avenue car, he had asked for a transfer east on Warren, *248and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Frederick v. Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon RailroadMichigan Supreme Court · 1877
  2. Thomas v. Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1888

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Montgomery Traction Co. v. FitzpatrickSupreme Court of Alabama · 1907
  2. Norton v. Consolidated Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1906
  3. Brown v. Rapid Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1902
  4. Hornesby v. Georgia Railway & Electric Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1904
  5. Carvey v. Detroit & Mackinac Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1903

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