Mullen v. Chester Traction Co.

Citations

• 235 Pa. 516
• 84 A. 429
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 579

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Tickets—Independent lines.</p> <p>Where a street railway company prints and issues tickets in its own name, and having thereon the words “good for one five cent fare,” and supplies such tickets to two other independent street railway companies under an understanding that the tickets when sold should be good as fare on any of the three railways, a person who purchases a ticket from a conductor of one of the independent lines, and is injured while riding as a passenger on such line in a collision between two of its ears, may maintain an action against the company issuing the tickets to recover damages for his injuries; and in such a case it is immaterial that the issuing company received no benefit from the sale of the ticket; and it is also immaterial, as far as the plaintiff is concerned, as to what agreement there was between the company issuing the ticket, and the company operating the line where the accident happened. The proceeds of the tickets sold each day were turned over at the end of the day to the issuing company, and therefore, the conductors of the independent lines were the agents of the issuing company in the sale of the tickets.</p>