Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Berryman

2 Ind. App. 640
CourtIndiana Court of Appeals
DecidedFebruary 24, 1894
DocketNo. 1,041
StatusPublished

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Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Berryman, 2 Ind. App. 640 (Ind. Ct. App. 1894).

Opinion

Gavin, J.

The appellee sued to recover damages caused by her wrongful expulsion from appellant’s train.

From her complaint, it appears that the Lake Erie and Western Railway Company owned a railroad from Indianapolis through Tipton and Kokomo to Michigan City; appellant owned a road from Kokomo to Logansport; by some arrangement between the roads, the terms of [642]*642which were unknown to appellee, the appellant ran her train over the L. E. & W. road from Kokomo to Indianapolis, with an agreement to carry passengers upon tickets issued by the L. E. & W. Co., the proceeds of which were divided between the two roads. Appellant’s train stopped at Tipton and Kokomo regularly to receive and discharge passengers. On the day mentioned in the complaint, appellee purchased from the L. E. & W. agent at Tipton a coupon ticket from Tipton to Kokomo’ and thence to Logansport.

This ticket was purchased just before the appellant’s train was due, and was purchased and sold for use on that train. With it she boarded the train and tendered it to the conductor for her passage, but it was refused, and she was ejected. There were various stipulations and conditions on the ticket, providing that under the contingencies named the ticket should be invalid, e. g., that it should not be good unless stamped, nor if checks were detached, etc.

While the ticket showed it was issued by the L. E. & W. Co., there was nothing to indicate that it was for use only on L. E. & W. trains. The coupon from Tipton to Kokomo read:

L. E. & W. P., C., C. & Sr. L.

Strealing Improved Coupon Ticket. Pat. May 28,1876.

“Issued by Lake Erie and Western Railroad.

TIPTON TO KOKOMO.

On Condition Named in Contract. One Passage.

NOT GOOD IE DETACHED.

801 L. E. & W. P., C., C. St. L ”

[643]*643Under the allegations of the complaint and the form of the ticket, the L. E. & W. Co. was in effect made the agent of the appellant for the issuing of tickets good on its trains over the L. E. & W. road. The appellant was under the same obligation to accept the ticket as rested upon the L. E. & W. Co., and under substantially the same obligation to accept as if it had itself issued the ticket.

In Schopman v. Boston, etc., R. R. Co., 9 Cush. 24, a passenger procured a ticket from one company (not the defendant) from SpringfieldthroughWorcester to Boston. From Worcester to Boston she rode over the defendant’s road in a train hauled by its engine and under its control. The defendant, however, claimed, as here, that there was no contract between it and the passenger. The court says: “It is, in our view, quite immaterial where she may have obtained this Boston and Worcester railroad ticket. If the defendants adopt this mode of furnishing their tickets to sell elsewhere, either at other railroad stations, or in connection with stages, or if they agree with another contiguous railroad company, that a ticket be issued which is to entitle the purchaser to pass on both roads, and which, upon being shown to the conductor of the Boston and Worcester road, is to have all the benefits of ordinary tickets, and to be received by him as such ticket, it is, to all intents and purposes, the same thing to the traveler as a ticket purchased at the office of the Boston and Worcester railroad; and the rights of the passenger, and the liabilities of the company are the same as if the ticket had been purchased at the office of the Boston and Worcester railroad company, for the mere passage from Worcester to Boston.”

That the appellant was really a party to the contract of carriage under the allegations, see Foulkes v. Met. Dist. R. W. Co., 5 Com. P. Div., L. R., 157 (158).

[644]*644As to the various provisos and contingencies contained in the ticket, conceding without deciding that the appellee was in all respects bound bjr them, they were matters of defense to be set up by appellant.

We do not regard as material the failure to give the full name of the appellant in referring to it in the body of the complaint. Appellant is properly named as a defendant in the caption, and the first use of the incorrect name is in connection with the words, the “said defendant.” Taking the pleading altogether, it is clear that appellant is the company designated, and we are satisfied it states a good cause of action.

By its first paragraph of answer, appellant set up that its only right to run trains over the L. E. & W. road was by virtue of a contract which provided that the L. E. & W. Oo. should retain its local passenger business and appellant should not sell tickets on its trains for points between Indianapolis and Kokomo; that appellant maintained no ticket office nor ticket agent at Tipton; that there was no obligation resting upon it to carry passengers from Tipton to Kokomo on L. E. & W. tickets except at its own option; that appellant had nothing to do with the sale of the ticket in question, and did not in any manner authorize the sale of it or any of like import, but, on the contrary, had notified the L. E. & W. Co., through its general passenger agent, that such tickets would not be honored on appellant’s trains; that Tipton is not a station where appellant’s trains stopped regularly to receive and discharge passengers generally, but appellants stopped at the L. E. & W. depot at that point because there was a railroad crossing there, on account of which trains were compelled, by law, to stop. Appellant further expressly denied any arrangement with the L. E. & W. Co. to honor such tickets as that issued to appellee, it being a coupon ticket, extending beyond [645]*645Kokomo, but alleged that it was between said roads agreed that such tickets should not be so honored; that the ticket was not sold for passage on appellant’s train, but was issued by the L. E. & W. Co., which ran four trains daily between Tipton and Kokomo. A copy of the ticket was set out with the answer, and some further formal allegations were contained in it.

To this answer appellee replied that for five years prior to the occurrence in controversy appellant had, under its contracts, run its trains over the said L. E. & W. road, had used the same depot at Tipton for the accommodation of its patrons, where the same ticket agent sold tickets for the trains of appellant and the L. E. &W.

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