State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad

Citations

• 27 Fla. 403

Syllabus

<p>1. General Rule 4, adopted by the Railroad Commission, September 23, 1890, and requiring each railroad company to post in a conspicuous place, and keep continuously posted in each of its stations a copy of the schedule of its freight and passenger rates, revised and adopted by the commission for the use of the company, rules and regulations, official classifications and table of distances, means that the publication shall be in placard or bill form, and that the placards shall be so attached to something in a conspicuous place in each station that they can in the position in which they are placed, or without being removed, be read conveniently by the public, and that they shall be kept posted in this manner continuously. Nailing up by one corner in a conspicuous place in a station, and in such manner as to be accessible to everyone, a pamphlet of about eleven printed pages, containing the rules and regulations governing the transportation of passengers and freight or a similar pamphlet containing the classifications, is not a posting within the meaning of the rule, nor is the binding of these pamphlets and the schedules of freight and passenger rates together and placing them conspicuously upon a conspicuous shelf desk in the station agents’s office, such a posting.</p> <p>2. Where a schedule of passenger rates is headed “Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad Ticket Rates,” and it states the full sum charged as fare from each station to any other station, that half rates will be charged for children between designated . ages traveling with parents or guardian and that no charge will be made for those under a specified age traveling in the same manner, and gives the extra charge to be collected of passengers who omit to purchase tickets, and it is not denied that the charges correspond in amount with the passenger rates revised and adopted by the railroad commission for the use of the company, and it does not appear that passenger rates have ever ueen prescribed or adop