{ "id": 1564888, "name": "Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company v. Watkins", "name_abbreviation": "Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Watkins", "decision_date": "1915-04-12", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "488", "last_page": "491", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "117 Ark. 488" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "42 Am. Rep. 432", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "Am. Rep.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "132 Mass. 116", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Mass.", "case_ids": [ 2131592 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/mass/132/0116-01" ] }, { "cite": "16 L. R. A. 55", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "L.R.A.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "29 Am. Rep. 458", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "Am. Rep.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "47 la. 82", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Iowa", "case_ids": [ 2331659 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/iowa/47/0082-01" ] }, { "cite": "92 S. W. 54", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "62 Md. 95", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Md.", "case_ids": [ 1802149 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/md/62/0095-01" ] }, { "cite": "10 S. E. 556", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "73 S. E. 75", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "42 Am. Rep. 432", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "Am. Rep.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "132 Mass. 116", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Mass.", "case_ids": [ 2131592 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/mass/132/0116-01" ] }, { "cite": "16 L. R. A. 55", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "L.R.A.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "29 Am. Rep. 458", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "Am. Rep.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "47 la. 82", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Iowa", "case_ids": [ 2331659 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/iowa/47/0082-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 388, "char_count": 6873, "ocr_confidence": 0.46, "pagerank": { "raw": 4.03580807328026e-08, "percentile": 0.05846383321962014 }, "sha256": "9141422259e7d62a5a67e12cdb0f84cd5c53f356157594278ac1e13903acf654", "simhash": "1:d2f311b0ee368c90", "word_count": 1259 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:56:14.924196+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company v. Watkins." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Habt, J.\nAppellee sued appellant for damages for alleged wrongful ejection from its train. Appellee, J. L. Watkins, lived in Little Rock and in July, 1914, got a pass over appellant\u2019-s line of railroad to Brinkley to become a brakeman between that -point and Memphis. After he had made a few trips on the local freight train the conductor told him that he did not need Mm any longer. This -occurred at Brinkley. Appellee wired to Little Rock for a pass home. While he was waiting for an answer to 'Ms message a passenger train came along on its way to Little Rock and appellee boarded the train. When the auditor came around to collect Ms fare he told him the circumstances detailed above. The auditor wired to Little Rock to see if he could obtain a pass for him and the dispatcher wired back that appellee should have waited at Brinkley to get a pass and instructed the auditor to eject Mm from the train if he did not pay Ms fare. Appellee refused to pay Ms fare, and when the train arrived at Hazen the conductor told him to get off the train. Appellee then offered to pay his fare from Hazen to Little Rock but the conductor .and auditor of the train refused to receive it unless he would pay the fare from Brinkley to Little Rock, and ejected him from the train. Appellee then went to the ticket agent at Hazen and bought a ticket from that place to Little Rock and again attempted to enter the train but was not permitted to do so. Appellee did not offer to pay his fare from Brinkley to Hazen but, on the contrary, refused to do so.\nUnder the rules of the company the conductor or auditor were not allowed to permit appellee to ride unless he paid the full fare from the point where he got on the train'to the point of destination. The jury returned a verdict in favor of appellee in the sum of $50 and to reverse the judgment rendered appellant has prosecuted this appeal.\nSection 6591 of Kirby\u2019s Digest, provides that if any passenger shall refuse to pay his fare it shall be lawful for the conductor of the train to put Mm out of the car at any usual stopping place the conductor may elect. According to the undisputed testimony the appellee got on the train at Brinkley to go to Little Rook. He had no ticket or pass and refused to pay Ms fare. Under the statute above referred to the conductor had a right to eject him from the train at Hazen wMch was a usual stopping place. The appellee then bought a ticket from Hazen to Little Rock and attempted to board the same train to be carried trr-Little Rock but the conductor and train auditor refused to permit him to ride on the train because under the rules and regulations of tbe company he was required to pay fare from the point where he entered the train to the point of destination and, having refused to pay fare from Brinkley to Little Rock, they would not . permit him to again embark on the train at Hazen.\nThe regulation 'by which railroads, when passengers are found on their trains who have no tickets or passes, requiring such passenger to pay fare not only for that part of the route to be traveled but also for that part already passed over, is a reasonable one. Manning v. Louisville & Nashville Rd. Co., (Ala.) 16 L. R. A. 55.\nWhere a passenger has been lawfully ejected from a railway train for nonpayment of fare he can not demand to be carried forward on the same train without paying the disputed fare and his purchase of a ticket at the point of ejection will not entitle him to readmission to the train. Stone v. C. & N. W. Ry. Co., 47 Iowa 82, 29 Am. Rep. 458.\nWhen the train auditor demanded of appellee the fare from Brinkley to Little Rock appellee .refused to pay him 'and told him that lie would pay him from Hazen to Little Rock. It is apparent that appellee having got on the train at Brinkley would not be entitled to ride to Little Rock by tendering the fare from Hazen to Little Rock, and his purchase of a ticket from Hazen gave him no greater rights than his tender of the fare from Hazen to Little Rock.\nIn the case last cited the court, in discussing a precisely similar situation said: \u201cThe purchase of a ticket from the ticket agent would give him no greater rights. For under such a ticket he would be claiming the same rights under the same state of facts upon which he would not be entitled to them had he dealt alone with the conductor. The fact that he made use of an agent of the company other than the conductor can not enlarge his rights or change the legal aspect of the case. It must be that the transaction with the agent was a mere continuation of the transaction with the conductor.\u201d\nTo the same effect see Swan v. Manchester & Lawrence Rd. Co., 132 Mass. 116, 42 Am. Rep. 432; Phillips v. Atlantic Coast Line Rd. Co. (S. C.) 73 S. E. 75; Pickens v. Richmond & D. R. Co., (N. C.) 10 S. E. 556; Pennington v. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balt. Rd. Co., 62 Md. 95; Gulf Coast & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Riney, (Tex. Civ. Ct. Appeals), 92 S. W. 54.\nIt follows thiat the court should have directed a verdict for the appellant and for its refusal to do so the judgment must he reversed; and, inasmuch as the facts have been fully developed, the cause of action will be dismissed.", "type": "majority", "author": "Habt, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Thos. S. Buzbee and Geo. B. Pugh, for appellant.", "No brief filed for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company v. Watkins.\nOpinion delivered April 12, 1915.\n1. BAILROADS PAYMENT OF FARES\u2014-REASONABLE REGULATION S. TbS \u2018regulation by whiob railroads, where passengers are found on their trains, w-ho have no tickets or passes, requiring such passengers -to pay fare not only -for that part of the -route to be traveled, but -also for -that part -already passed over, is a 'reasonable one.\n2. -Railroads\u2014ejection of passengers\u2014failure to pay fare.\u2014Where a passenger has been lawfully ejected from a -railway train for nonpayment of fare, he can not demand to -be'carried forward on the same train without paying the disputed fare, and the purchase of a ticket at -the point of ejection will not entitle him to readmission to the itra-in.\n3. Railroads\u2014passengers\u2014refusal to pay fare.\u2014A passenger, riding on a -railway train, -without a ticket or a pass, can not recover damages for being -ejected from the train, when he tenders the fare or buys a -ticket for that portion of the journey on-ly to be \u25a0passed over, .but refuses to pay for -that portion -already traveled.\nAppeal from Prairie Circuit Court, Southern District; Eugene Lanhford, Judge;\nreversed.\nThos. S. Buzbee and Geo. B. Pugh, for appellant.\nAppellant was entitled to a peremptory instruction. Appellee having rightfully been ejected from the train at Hazen, because of his refusal to pay fare except from that point on to his destination, -could not create a new contract by -purchasing a -ticket at Hazen and ignore the implied contract he entered into by boarding the train at Brinkley. 47 la. 82; 29 Am. Rep. 458; 16 L. R. A. 55; 132 Mass. 116; 42 Am. Rep. 432.\nNo brief filed for appellee." }, "file_name": "0488-01", "first_page_order": 514, "last_page_order": 517 }