Pennsylvania Railroad v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 157 U.S. 225
• 15 S. Ct. 576
• 39 L. Ed. 682
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2197

Syllabus

<p>The Pennsylvania Company notified the Wabash Company that after a date named no ticket sold by that company would be recognized as entitling-the'holder to passover the Pennsylvania road. The Wabash Company after that date sold a ticket for a passage over the .Pennsylvania road. When the purchaser reached that road he offered his ticket to the conductor. The conductor refused to take it, and, when the holder of it declined to pay his fare, caused him to be put off the train. Held, That the refusal to recognize the ticket was within the right of the Pennsylvania Company, and that that closed the matter, as between the two companies in respect of the unauthorized sale; but that the ejection from the train was done by the Pennsylvania Company on its own responsibility, and was not made legally necessary by any thing done by the Wabash Company which the Pennsylvania Company was bound to recognize or respect.</p>