Pennsylvania Railroad v. Connell

Citations

• 112 Ill. 295

Syllabus

<p>1. Carriers op passengers — through coupon tickets over distinct lines of railroad—right of passengers to be carried—duty and liability of the several companies. Through tickets in the form of coupons, sold to a passenger by one railroad company, entitling him to pass over successive connecting lines of road, in the absence of an express agreement create no contract with the company selling the same, to carry him beyond the line of its own road, but they are distinct tickets for each road, sold by the first company as agent for the others, so far as the passenger is concerned.</p> <p>2. A person intending to take passage by railroad from Omaha to New York, purchased at the former place, from the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company, a through coupon ticket, purporting to give the right of carriage from Omaha to New York over the several lines intermediate and connecting between those two points, one of the connecting lines being the-Pennsylvania railroad. There was printed on the face of the ticket: “In selling this ticket for passage over other roads, this company acts only as agent for them, and assumes no responsibility beyond its own line.” The coupon over the Pennsylvania railroad declared, “Issued by the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railway, on account of the Pennsylvania railroad, ” which the company owning the latter road refused to accept, and on refusal to pay the regular fare demanded, ejected the passenger from the train: Held, in a suit by the passenger against the latter company, that the first named company contracted with the passenger only as agent of the defendant company.</p> <p>3. Where a coupon ticket has been sold calling for passage over several distinct lines of railroad, the rights of the passenger, and the duty and responsibility of the several companies over whose roads the passenger is entitled to a passage, are the same as if he had purchased a ticket at the office of each company constituting the through line.</p> <p>Í. Sam