Anderson v. New York & N. H. R.

1 F. Cas. 845

• Court: U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
• Decided: July 1, 1872
• Status: Published

Opinion

At law. The plaintiff, who sued for damages for being put off ihe cars for want of a ticket, claimed to have had a ticket pur--cliased by him in Boston at the regular office in the Boston and Worcester R. R. depot, -as a through ticket for New York. It was proved that the Boston and Worcester R. R. Co. were authorized to sell through tickets from Boston to New York, with coupons headed “Boston to New York,” the last of which was good for one trip over the defendants’ railway; and that a reciprocal arrangement existed by which the defendants sold through tickets at New York for Boston, the •coupons being headed “New York to Boston.” The plaintiff’s ticket was one of the latter description. The court (WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge, and SHIPMAN, District Judge) held that, assuming that the ticket agent at Boston had sold this ticket as a ticket for New York, he so exceeded his authority that the defendants are not bound by bis act, and directed a verdict in their favor.