Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Beckett

The appellee’s complaint sets forth, in substance, that on July 20, 1892, appellant had a station at Massachusetts avenue, in Indianapolis, where it had on sale round trip tickets to Jonesboro, a station on another division of its road, at the regularly advertised price of $3.60; that appellee, desiring to go to Jonesboro, presented himself in ample time at appellant’s ticket office, tendered the price and asked for such a ticket, but failed to obtain it by reason of the incapacity and negligence of the agent, who advised him to get on the train without it; that in pursuance of this…