Boylan v. Hot Springs Railroad

Citations

• 132 U.S. 146
• 10 S. Ct. 50
• 33 L. Ed. 290
• 1889 U.S. LEXIS 1852

Syllabus

<p>The purchaser from a railroad company, at a reduced rate of fare, of a ticket for a.passage to a certain station and back, containing a contract signed by him, by which he agrees that the ticket is not good for a return passage unless stamped by the agent of the company at that station, and that no agent or employe of tlie company is authorized to alter, modify or waive any condition of the contract, is bound by those conditions, whether he knew them or not; and if without having attempted to have the ticket so stamped, but upon showing it to the baggage-master and gateman at the station, he has his ticket punched and his baggage checked, and is admitted to the train, and, upon being told by the conductor that his ticket is not good for want of the stamp, refuses either to leave the train or to pay full fare, and is forcibly put off at the next station, he cannot maintain an action sounding in contract against the company, or except to the exclusion, at the trial of such an action, of evidence concerning the circumstances attending his expulsion and the conseqrmnt injuries to him or his business.</p>