Debra Ward v. Cross Sound Ferry

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plain tiffs husband was her agent for ticket purchase, but that the ticket’s provisions were not enforceable because husband had purchased the ticket minutes before boarding, and surrendered it upon entering the ship
• finding admiralty jurisdiction proper in personal injury case where plaintiff fell on gangway while boarding a ferry
• applying the test to a time limitation printed “on the reverse side of” a ferry ticket
• focusing on whether circumstances “permitted” the passenger to learn the relevant contract terms
• no reasonable notice of contractual terms where passenger is given ticket that is collected two to three minutes later and where no copy of contractual terms is retained by passenger
• husband was wife’s agent for purpose of ticket purchase

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).