The Law Of Excursion Tickets
An English statnte cnnots tliat if nny person travel or attempt to travel in any osurriage of the coirircany without haviug previously paid bis lare, and with intent to avoia paymeni thereof, heshall for every offense forieil to this company a sum not exceeding forty .= ' - H F i t í lts - The res'pondeni (in tne caie of iv.v, Ion agaihst Howells) had purchas-"i thu forward half of a tourist i: ' '. Í--3IE Ludlow to New Müford froT". r Mr. Aaron, .lio had ueed the ticknt f in Ludlow to Hereford, which v.-.is ;i portion of the journey to New Milrord. ïhe respondont then attempt'd to use the t ïi-kct from Hereford to New Milford, wben bis name and addresg were taken, and the charge was preferred against liiin by the Greal V stern Kailway Company. It aleo appeared that toiirists' tickets are avail ab'e f'.r two months, and allow the h oW er to break liis journey, luit areejidorsed "not transferable. Cockburn, C. J. s!d: "ithink this case clearly comes witliin the statute. It is ïiot even the case of a ticket taken by A, wKch A makes op his mind nol to use, ana hands it ovei to B, thai might be o;cn tü a different consideration; l)iit this is a tourisi ticket, as to which everybody is perfeetly awaru that thc tiekel is issued at :■ cheaper rate, - ause the person who takes it is about lo luake hiü retnrn joumey by the same lailway, and tlie eompany, tlterefoit1, Inda it to iis advantage lo issue the i cketat a cheaper rate, upon the unr'erstandin.; that t he tourist ticket shaJl be useO uj Hie man to rnom the ticket vi-as orinallj issued. But, iíit isgiven at the end oí the jouruey, íj l!ie person who originally took it. t'o Borne one else who is to have the advantage of it on the single journey, and who uould not be entitled togeta ticket at that ral.; if he took a ticket onlv for the single journey, it is quite olear the conditiona upon which the ticket v;is issued are violated, and that the man who seeks to travel bysueha tourist ticket, not havlng himself originally taken it out, does not pay his fare, but defrauda the company to the extent of the diflerenee betweeñ the tourisi ticket fare and w hal woiild have been the fare for the single journey. He Üierefore does not pay his faro, and as I think in this case the. evidunce is abundantly olear to show that he took his ticket with the intention to avoid the pay ment of his fare, he is, thercfore, within the terms of the statute."-
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