Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-08-02

obliged to surrender their tickets
without having . check in exchange,
by which they may be sble to show
that they have paid fare. When
the passenger wishes to stop over
at : station, he should have his
ticket indorsed by the conductor,
with . memorandum permitting the
holder to stay over and pass on a
subsequent train. Without such q
memorandum the passenger may be
required to pay for the distance
travelled from the point where he re-
sumed his journey. ig -,.
In New York, railroads are pro-
hibited, under penalty of $50 for
each offcnse, from asking and re-
ceiving q greater
RATE OF FARE
than that allowed by law, which is
fixed by the General Railroad act
at sum not exceeding three cents
per mile. But it is recognized fact
that the companies may discrimi-
nate between fares paid in cars and
at stations, and may require passen-
gers to procure tickets before enter
ing the cars, or pay Eve cents extra
fare. And in a Western State it
has been decided that when a pas
scnger pays from station to station,
the additional FIVE cents may be re-
quired at each payment. The COM
pany, however, can collect the ad-
ditional five cents only where the
ticket Office is open sufficient time
before the departure Of the train to
allow the passenger to procure 3
ticket, but which he has failed to
| do.
Next in Importance to the safe
transportation of the passenger
himself is the transportation Of
his
Under the term "baggage" may
be comprised such articles as are
usually carried by passengers for
their personal use, convenience, in
struction, or amusement, by the
way. Thus, articles of jewelry usu-
ally worn about the person, as a
watch, finger-rings, etc.; wearing
apparel, as material for two dresses,
linen cut into shirt bosoms, etc.,
are properly included under the
term baggage, and recoverable as
such. Nor will the fact that such
wearing apparel was intended for
members Of the passengers family
alter the case. Tools used by the
passenger in his trade; or a pistol,
gun, rifle, fishing-tackle, and like
articles of amusement, carried in
his trunk, are likewise deemed bag.
gage.
While the courts have been thus
liberal in defining the term bag
gage, as to the public generally, it
would seem that they had adopted
q somewhat different construction as
to the legal profession for while
manuscripts carried by a student or
author in his trunk for the purpos-
es of the studies or business upon
which he travels, and the surgical
instruments of medical practition-
er, are deemed baggage, yet title
deeds and documents carried by an
attorncy-at-law, to use on trial, or
sum Of money carried by him to
meet the contingencies of the case,
the courts say are not properly a
portion of travelling baggage.
But the term baggage does not
include samples Of merchandise
which the traveller wishes to sell,
nor materials for q dress for his
landlady, nor presents intended for
friends, nor q dozen silver tea
spoons, nor Masonic regalia, nor
handouts; nor is a trunk, contain
ing nothing but merchandise las,
for example, "thirty-eight pairs Of
new shoes, sixty pairs stock for
boys shoes and two papers shoe
nails'), or silverware, baggage for
which the carrier is liable. Nor is
money intended for trade, invest
ment or transportation included in
the term baggage, although other
wise in respect to money carried
for travelling expenses. What is
reasonable amount Of baggage, or q
reasonable amount of money for
travelling expenses, is for the jury
to decide, in determining which,
however, they may take into consid-
Grafton the length Of the journey
and to some extent the wealth Of
the traveller.
1t is the duty Of railroad compa-
nies to furnish
for baggage given them for trans
portation, and by the New York
statute company refusing to check
baggage is liable to a penalty of ten
dollars for every refusal. After
the check is delivered to the pass
enger he should be careful not to
lose or mislay it, since its posses
sion is evidence against the COM
pany of the receipt of the baggage.
Baggage checks, or tokens given in
exchange for baggage checks las,
for example, card or receipt of an
express company, given to pass
enger on his delivering to them his
baggage check, limiting the liabili-
ty Of the company for loss of the
baggage to $lO0), are not OF such .
nature as to put persons on their
guard 40 to memoranda stamped or
printed thereon, and persons receiv-
ing them are not presumed to know
their contents. The carrier, except
where the loss occurs through the
enemies Of the country, or inevita-
BILE accident, is bound to deliver to
each passenger his baggage in .
reasonable time and manner after
its arrival At the place Of destina-
ton; and it is quite immaterial
whether the passenger accompanies
his baggage or starts by q prior or
subsequent train to tho one carry
ing his baggage, or whether the
baggage is in excess of the quanti-
ty allowed to q passenger, unless
there is some agreement to the con-