Geiger v. President of the Perkiomen & Reading Turnpike Road.

Citations

• 167 Pa. 582
• 31 A. 918
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 949

Syllabus

<p>Turnpike roads — Tolls—Bicycles—Act of March 25, 1805.</p> <p>A bicycle is a two wheel carriage within the meaning of the act of March 25,1805, P. L. 187, and as such subject to tolls on a turnpike road.</p> <p>A charge of one cent per mile for a bicycle on a turnpike road is not an unreasonable charge.</p> <p>It seems that a turnpike road company has a right to demand reasonable tolls for all vehicles passing over its road, even though the act by which it is incorporated does not in express terms confer such right.</p> <p>Doubled, whether, without express authority from the legislature, the managers of a public highway can lawfully so discriminate between vehicles using it as to exempt wholly one class of carriages from the tolls which it imposes on all other carriages.</p>