Standish v. Narragansett Steamship Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for assault and battery and false imprisonment. Ad damnum, $2000. Trial in the Superior Court, before Putnam, J., who allowed the following bill of exceptions : “ The plaintiff offered evidence tending to show that on March 25, he purchased at the station of the Old Colony & Newport Railway Company, in Boston, tickets entitling him to a passage from Boston to Philadelphia by way of the Old Colony & Newport Railway to Fall River, thence by the defendants’ steamboat to…
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Tort for assault and battery and false imprisonment. Ad damnum, $2000. Trial in the Superior Court, before Putnam, J., who allowed the following bill of exceptions : “ The plaintiff offered evidence tending to show that on March 25, he purchased at the station of the Old Colony & Newport Railway Company, in Boston, tickets entitling him to a passage from Boston to Philadelphia by way of the Old Colony & Newport Railway to Fall River, thence by the defendants’ steamboat to New York, and thence by railroad to Philadelphia; that all the tickets were stamped with the date of purchase, and…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The jury having found a verdict for the plaintiff for $50, he excepts to all the rulings of the judge who tried the cause, and to his refusals to rule.
*5171. He contends that it should not have been left to the jury to find whether the plaintiff knew he was to give up the boat ticket before leaving the boat, because there was no evidence whatever tending to prove such knowledge. But from the manner in which passengers purchase tickets, and the use necessary to be made of them, any person of ordinary intelligence would infer that they are to be given up on the boat to some officer, and as they had…
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