Bricker v. Phil. & R. R.

Citations

• 132 Pa. 1
• 25 W.N.C. 204
• 18 A. 983
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 757

Syllabus

<p>1 A passenger, in the legal sense of the word, is one who travels in some public conveyance by virtue of an express or implied contract with the carrier, as by the payment of a fare or by that whieh is accepted as the equivalent thereof : Penna. li. Co. v. Price, 96 Pa. 267.</p> <p>2 When a person, not accepted as a passenger and without the knowledge of the railroad company’s employees, is in a car not provided for passengers but exclusively devoted to the railway mail service, and with no l'ight to remain there, the company is not liable for injuries received by him in a collision.</p>