President of Baltimore v. Boone
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Howard County. By the Act of Assembly of 1860, ch. 259, the appellant, a Turnpike Company, which had then been a long time in operation, was authorized to lay down on its road a railway for passenger cars, and by the fourth section of that Act, the company was authorized to demand “not more than twenty-five cents fare or toll for the whole distance between the (Baltimore) city boundary and Towsontown, and not more than five cents for each…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Howard County. By the Act of Assembly of 1860, ch. 259, the appellant, a Turnpike Company, which had then been a long time in operation, was authorized to lay down on its road a railway for passenger cars, and by the fourth section of that Act, the company was authorized to demand “not more than twenty-five cents fare or toll for the whole distance between the (Baltimore) city boundary and Towsontown, and not more than five cents for each mile or fraction thereof, for each way-passenger.” By the eighth section of this Act, the company was “authorized to…
1Opinion of the CourtStewart, J.
This was an action brought by the appellee against the appellant, to recover damages for his expulsion from one of its cars.
It appears that the defendant as a company, having cars for the transportation of travellers, with authority to charge such rates, as prescribed by law and ordinances of the City of Baltimore, had a regulation, by which its conductors were instructed to demand from every passenger, travelling on its road, from any point of the *350first mile in Baltimore County, to any point inside of the City, when he had not a ticket obtained at its office, the sum of twelve cents, and to…
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