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  "name": "Illinois Central Railroad Company v. John Bauer",
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Lacey\ndelivered the opinion oe the Court.\nThis is a suit by appellee for damages for being expelled from the appellant\u2019s railroad train by the conductor, T. J. Brinkman, at the village of Chebanse. There was a trial by jury and verdict for appellee for $50 and judgment on the verdict.\nThe facts in many essential points are undisputed, though in some there is a conflict of the evidence.\nOn the 4th day of June, 1895, the appellee had occasion to go on appellant\u2019s train from Chebanse, where he resided, to Kankakee, a distance of eight and one-fifth miles, and was desirous of going on the 4:33 p. m. train. This was the time of its arrival as published and known to appellee.\nHe went to the depot about fifteen minutes, as he himself testified, before train time, and while the ticket office was open. From that time up to the time the train was due appellee failed to procure a ticket, through his own fault and not through any fault of the station agent. The train was some ten minutes late and when it whistled the station agent was obliged to be engaged in other duties. It arrived at 4:42 o\u2019clock and departed at 4:43 o\u2019clock.\nJust as the station agent, Frank W. Duggan, was pulling down the semaphore to let the train in, appellee asked for a ticket, but the agent being engaged, could not give it to him, and so appellee boarded the train without a ticket.\nAs the train started the conductor demanded appellee\u2019s ticket, but he had none, and offered to pay his fare, twenty-five cents, but the conductor demanded thirty-five cents, which appellee refused to pay. The conductor then pulled the bell rope for the purpose of stopping the train and putting the appellee off the train and stopped it, and put his hands on his shoulders and led him to the door of the car and ordered him off. The appellee obeyed and got off the train within about three hundred feet of the depot. As to what happened between appellee and the conductor at the time of this occurrence there is a conflict in the evidence. The appellee says after the bell-rope was pulled and he saw the conductor was about to put him off the train he offered to pay the thirty-five cents demanded, but the conductor refused on the ground that as he had refused once he would not then take it.\nThe conductor and other witnesses contradict this and say that appellee at no time offered to pay the thirty-five cent fare.\nThe rules of the company, as shown by its printed rules and the evidence of the conductor, are that \u201c passengers are not permitted on the cars of the company without a ticket,\u201d and that \u201cconductors are required to collect from all passengers who have not tickets a higher rate than they would be charged if they had tickets before entering the train.\u201d\nThe conductor testified, and it was not contradicted, that \u201c the fare on the day that JBauer attempted to come to Kankakee from Chebanse, was, for passengers having tickets, twenty-five cents, for passengers without tickets, thirty-five cents,\u201d\nAdmitting that the jury found the facts most favorable for appellee, has he any right of recovery ?\nWe are of the. opinion he has not. The fault in not procuring a ticket was that of appellee. It was his duty to apply for his ticket to the station agent before the expiration of the time at which the train should start as fixed by the time table.\nIn law, if the passenger apply at the ticket office after that time and before the train has actually started, and the office has closed or the agent is engaged in other business, then the person so applying, if he take passage without a ticket, is subject to all the reasonable rules of the railway company requiring such person to pay a higher rate of fare on the train than they would have had to pay, if they had procured a ticket. St. L., A. & T. H. R. R. Co. v. South, 43 Ill. 176; and a passenger on a train under such circumstances without a ticket, on refusal to pay such extra fare may be ejected from the train. C., R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Baisbone, 24 Ill. App. 463.\nIt appears, then, that the appellee was liable under the law and undisputed facts of the case to be charged with the extra ten cents fare, and liable to be ejected from the cars in case he refused to pay it. How, admitting his theory of the case, his offer, after first refusing to pay the fare after the conductor had proceeded to stop the train and eject him, was it a sufficient tender of the fare to put the appellant in the wrong in expelling him from the train ?\nIt would be unreasonable to allow a passenger to trifle with a conductor of a railroad train in that manner.\nHe was in the wrong and liable to pay the increased railroad fare and should not be allowed to trifle with the agent of the company, demoralize the passenger traffic, and incommode the public. O\u2019Brien v. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. Co., 80 N. Y. 236.\nSeveral instructions given for appellee were erroneous, but we need not notice them as we have considered the case on the facts. There seems, from the evidence, to have been no injury or indignity inflicted on appellee by the conductor, except the humiliation of having been put off the train, and this he brought on himself by his own negligent and unjustifiable act. There was no error in the ruling of the Circuit Court on admission of evidence.\nThere appears, in our judgment, no cause of action on the facts of this case.\nThe judgment of the court below is reversed and the cause not remanded.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Lacey"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Wheeler & Hunter, attorneys for appellant.",
      "Stephen E. Moore, attorney for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Illinois Central Railroad Company v. John Bauer.\n1. Passengers\u2014Entering Train Without Tickets.\u2014It is the duty of a passenger to apply for his ticket before the expiration of the time at which the train is to start, as shown by the time table; if he applies after that time and before the train has actually started, and the office has closed or the agent is engaged in other business, then the person so applying, if he takes passage without a ticket, is subject to all the reasonable rules of the railroad company requiring him to pay a higher rate of fare than he would have had to pay if he had procured a ticket, and on refusal to pay such higher fare he may be ejected from the train.\n2. Same\u2014Offering to Pay the Extra Fare After the Train is Stopped to Expel Him.\u2014A passenger who enters a railroad train without a ticket and refuses to pay the higher fare required in such cases by the rules of the company may be ejected from the train. And it will not avail Men if, after the train is stopped for the purpose of ejecting him, he offers to pay the extra fare or put the company in the wrong for expelling him.\nTrespass, for ejecting a person from the train. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kankakee County; the Hon. Charles R. Starr, Judge,\npresiding. Heard in this court at the December term, 1895.\nReversed but not remanded.\nOpinion filed June 1, 1896.\nWheeler & Hunter, attorneys for appellant.\nStephen E. Moore, attorney for appellee."
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