St. Clair v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad
St. Clair v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The demurrer admits it to be true that “the stipulations in the ticket plaintiff never signed or assented to, and that plaintiff. never knew of their existence until recently,” etc. The ticket (made an exhibit) shows it was never signed. But the demurrer admits also that no such contract was ever “assented to.” That is the end of the argument on this point. The case of Alabama, etc., Ry. Co. v. Holmes, 75 Miss., 388, was a case which went to the ]ury on proof that such a contract was made. It was wholly out of place when cited in support of a demurrer which admits that no such contract was ever “assented to.” But, further, the demurrer admits that the employes and officers of the Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. aided the quarantine officers in the alleged wrongful treatment, and that ‘‘ when plaintiff bought his ticket from the agent of defendant the said agent informed plaintiff that he could go through on said ticket to the city of Tallahassee without hindrance from quarantine regulations or other causes; that the quarantine regulations of no state he had to pass through
Reversed, demurrer overruled and remanded.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Elijah C. St. Clair v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad Company
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- Syllabus
- 1. Pleading and Practice. Demurrer. Contract. The validity, force or effect of a contract cannot be considered on the hearing of a demurrer to a declaration averring that such contract was never made. 3. Railroads. Ticket agent. Connecting Une. Quarantine. If a ticket agent of a railroad company, knowing of quarantine regulations prohibiting travel on a particular route, of which his principal is the initial carrier, other routes being open, induce a person who is ignorant of the facts to buy a ticket by said route, assuring him of noninterference in traveling on the ticket, and the purchaser is prevented from reaching his destination by quarantine officers and the employes of a connecting carrier, constituting a part of the route over which the ticket was sold, the initial carrier will be liable for the resultant damages.