Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Holmes

Citations

• 75 Miss. 371

Syllabus

<p>1. Railroads. Duty to passengers. Error in ticket. Explanations.</p> <p>The conductor of a passenger train is not justified in ejecting a passenger between stations because of an error in her ticket, if the passeng'er’s explanation of the error be 'reasonable and be substantiated by her baggage cheek and the way-bill for its transportation, it being a rule of the carrier to check baggage only upon a proper ticket.</p> <p>2. Same. Connecting carriers. Coupon tickets.</p> <p>If two or more railroad companies, by an arrangement between themselves, authorize the agents of each other to issue coupon tickets over the route covered by their connecting lines, and such tickets are honored when no errors are made in them, and by the terms of such tickets the initial carrier’s liability is limited to its own line, such, initial carrier will not be liable to a passeng-er for a wrongful ejection from the cars on a connecting line because of an error in the ticket issued by its servant.</p>