{ "id": 1400053, "name": "Gordon v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company", "name_abbreviation": "Gordon v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.", "decision_date": "1928-02-13", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "230", "last_page": "233", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "176 Ark. 230" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "40 Iowa 45", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Iowa", "case_ids": [ 8663351 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/iowa/40/0045-01" ] }, { "cite": "85 S. E. 1002", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "143 Ga. 805", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ga.", "case_ids": [ 567764 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ga/143/0805-01" ] }, { "cite": "37 L. R. A. (N. 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S. 467", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "U.S.", "case_ids": [ 3652729 ], "weight": 2, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/219/0467-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 451, "char_count": 7085, "ocr_confidence": 0.474, "pagerank": { "raw": 4.03580807328026e-08, "percentile": 0.052608086417393445 }, "sha256": "640c5dbef50f239973baaeb3c9693992225fe5d0451dabad92df22fa9653dda8", "simhash": "1:f12edd5215476d7e", "word_count": 1219 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:05:04.337082+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Gordon v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Smith, J.\nOn December 22, 1926, appellant purchased a full-fare round-tri'p ticket for herself and a half-fare round-trip . ticket for he\u00a1r granddaughter at Mena, Arkansas, from that station to Kansas City, Missouri, ' and return. The usual one-way full fare was $13.66, and the round-trip full fare, was $27.32. The tickets purchased by appellant were excursion 'tickets, and the price paid for her own ticket was $20.49, a reduction from the full regular fare of $6.83. Stamped on both tickets was this condition:\n\u201cIn consideration of the reduced rate at which this ticket is sold, it will not be accepted for passage if presented after 1-6-1927. \u2019 \u2019\nAt the time these tickets were .sold there had been filed with and approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission tariff sheets regulating Christmas excursion tickets, and a copy of these tariff sheets was on file in the office of the ticket agent who . sold the tickets. These tariff sheets contained the following limitation upon the sale of these excursion tickets: \u201cDates of sale\u2014 December 21 to 25, inclusive, 1926. Final return limit \u2014 \u2022 January 6,1927. Transit limit \u2014 Going\u2014\u2019Tickets must be used from selling station on date of sale, as stamped or perforated on ticket. Return trip \u2014 Return trip must be completed to original starting point before midnight of date of final limit.\u201d\nAppellant went to Kansas City, where she visited her nephew and niece, and remained until January 6, 1927, at which time she presented her ticket and that of her gnanddaughter to the gateman at the Union Station for admission as passengers to a train of appellee railway company which was - due to leave Kansas City at 11:35 p.m. Admission to the train was denied appellant upon the ground that the tickets would expire in twenty-' five minutes after the departure of the train, and the journey which appellant proposed to make could not be completed within that time; indeed, the train was not due to arrive at Mena, appellant\u2019s destination, until the following afternoon. There was no station at which the train would have stopped in twenty-five minutes, and appellant does not contend that she desired to use the tickets for that period of time. Her contention is that she presented the ticket before its expiration, and that she was therefore entitled to be transported as a passenger on the ticket.\nWhen appellant was denied the right to enter the train and become a passenger, she borrowed from her nephew, who had escorted her to the station, money to pay her fare and that of her granddaughter to her destination. After paying the full regular fare of herself and her granddaughter, she surrendered the return portions of her excursion tickets to the train auditor, and later received from the railway company $10.60 as rebate.\nAppellant sued for damages for a breach of the contract of carriage, and offered testimony to the effect that, as a result of the humiliation and chagrin endured by her when her ticket was refused, she suffered a nervous breakdown. Suit was not brought on account of the grandchild\u2019. At the conclusion of the testimony the court directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant railway company, which was done, and from the judgment pronounced thereon is this appeal.\nThe question presented by this appeal is whether the stipulation above quoted appearing on the ticket or the limitation as to the period of its validity appearing in the tariff sheets shall govern. As the ticket covered an interstate trip, the tariff approved- by the Interstate Commerce Commission must govern. L. & N. Ry. Co. v. Motley, 219 U. S. 467, 31 S. Ct. 265, 55 L. ed. 297, 34 L. R. A. (N. S.) 671.\nThe tariff sheet required the completion of the trip to be accomplished not later than January 6, and, as has been shown, it would hardly have been begun by that time, and appellant asked nothing less than that she be carried to her destination, which- she could not have reached until the following afternoon.\nIn 10 C. J., chapter Carriers, $ 1080, page 662, it is said:\n\u201cUnder the Interstate Commerce Act a carrier must publish passenger rates, and cannot charge a less or a different rate than that specified in its published rates, unless such rate is found to be unreasonable by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and neither the misquotation of rates nor ignorance is an excuse for charging or paying less or more than the filed rates, since passengers, as well as the agents of the carrier, are presumed to know such rates. \u2019 \u2019\nIn the case of Sanders v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 85 S. E. 167, 101 S. C. 11, the Supreme Court of South Carolina said:\n\u201cIt is well settled, too, that, under the act of Congress and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States construing it, no liability of a carrier can be predicated upon the misrepresentations or mistakes of its agents as to the rates applicable, or privileges or facilities to be afforded under the tariffs filed with the Commission. Passengers and shippers are conclusively presumed to know them, as well as the agents of the carriers. This question has been so recently and frequently considered and decided both by the Supreme Court of the United States and by this court that it is not deemed necessary to state the reasons therefor, or even to cite the decisions. \u201d\nIn the case of St. Louis, I. M. & S. Ry. Co. v. Wolf, 100 Ark. 22, 139 S. W. 536, Ann. Cas. 19130, 1384, it was held (to quote the syllabus): \u201cInterstate commerce\u2014 Effect of mistake as to rate. \u2014 '\"Where a railway agent, by mistake, inserted in a bill of lading for an interstate shipment a rate less than the published rate, the railroad company is not bound thereby; and it is immaterial in such case that the shipper and the agent were both ignorant of the published rate. \u2019 \u2019\nIn that case this court quoted from Barnes on Interstate Transportation, \u00a7 446, -as follows: \u201cUnder the present law, regardless of the rate quoted, the published tariff rate must be paid by the shipper and actually collected by the carrier.\u201d The reason given by the author for this apparently harsh rule is that the integrity of the published tariff must be preserved to prevent discrimination, and that, if it were otherwise, the published tariffs, through collusion or carelessness, would be constantly violated.\nSee also Pennington v. Illinois C. Ry. Co., 252 Ill. 584, 97 N. E. 289, 37 L. R. A. (N. S.) 983; Samples v. Georgia & F. Ry. Co., 143 Ga. 805, 85 S. E. 1002; Sherman v. Chicago, etc., Ry. Co., 40 Iowa 45.\nIt follows therefore that the limitation in the tariff sheet must govern, and not that stamped upon the ticket, and, as appellant did not use the ticket within the time limited by the tariff sheet, the railway company had the right to refuse to accept it and to collect the fare, as was done, and the .judgment of -the court directing a verdict in favor of the railway company must therefore be affirmed, and it is so ordered.", "type": "majority", "author": "Smith, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Pole McPhetrige, for appellant.", "James B. McDonough, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Gordon v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company.\nOpinion delivered February 13, 1928.\nPole McPhetrige, for appellant.\nJames B. McDonough, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0230-01", "first_page_order": 248, "last_page_order": 251 }