Richards v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 257
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 224

Syllabus

<p>Railroads — Passengers—Wrongful ejection from train — Dispute with conductor as to fare.</p> <p>Where a passenger on a railroad train surrenders his ticket to the conductor when he is “just passing into the seat and sitting down,” and subsequently refuses to enter into conversation with the conductor when the latter asks him where he had gotten on, and what was his point of destination, and thereupon he is ejected from the train, arrested, handcuffed and taken before a magistrate, and in resulting proceedings is finally discharged, such passenger may maintain an action of trespass against the railroad company for the unlawful ejection and arrest.</p>