Clark v. Harrisburg Traction Co.

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 76
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 185

Syllabus

<p>Street railways — Passenger—Ejection—Duties to intoxicated passenger.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company by a passenger to recover damages for wrongful ejection from a ear, a verdict and judgment for plaintiff will be sustained where the evidence shows that the passenger entered the car in a visibly intoxicated condition, having in his possession a ticket to his destination consisting of three severable coupons, that the conductor collected one of the coupons, that when the conductor demanded the second coupon, plaintiff was stupid with drink and asleep and paid no attention to the conductor’s request, although not consciously refusing to produce and surrender the ticket, that thereupon the conductor stopped the car, ami ejected the plaintiff, and that the time of the ejection was half past ten o’clock, at night.</p>