The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-30
TICKET SCALPERS
WERE CONVICTED
Violated Injunction by Deal
ing in Tickets to Vet
erans' Reunion.

Judge Boarman, presiding In the United
Staten Circuit Court yesterday, granted
the preliminary writs OF Injunction prayed
for by the louisville and Nashville and
other railroads against Marcus Bitter
man and others, railroad ticket brokers'.
forbidding them from hhying or selling.
or dealing In. or procuring the buying or
selling OF any OF tho return tlckes or
coupons given in connection with the spe-
cial rate tickets Issued to tho patrons OF
said railroads for their transportation to
and from New Orleans TO attend tho
United Confederate Veterans Reunion.
The decision was orally delivered by
Judge Boarman, and Is substantially Us
follows:
have been cited by counsel or examined
by tho court are substantially uniform
to the effect that the contract evidenced
by the RAILWAY non-transferable uckee
described in complainant bill. is leEaA
contract between the carrier ana the orig
inal purchaser thereof; that the s..puia a.
lions written In the ticket are shown to
be understood and agreed to by the Sig
nature written by said purchaser OF Ina
ticket at the time the contract between
himself and the carrier was or Is entered
into. and that such stipulauons may en-
ter into n legal COuLih s.'t" -
parties named in the contract apo limits
tho benefits OF the contract alone TO such
purchasers use, and under the 1a"' " u
Is used at all, no one can bscome tHA
beneficiary OF the contract other thah
the original purchaser; that under INV
conditions OF the contract the railway
company is not charged with obligations
to carry any passenger holding or pre-
sentinR It, unless the passenger be tne
person who entered into the contract by
purchasing tho ticket
.rhe purpose of complainants hi!l ~ &c
eujoin and forbid the defendants from
dealing in such tickets. with the we"
that such dealing may result IN pur-
pose or effort on the part OF any one
other than the original, purchaser to ava'l
himself OF the benefits OF the contract
evidenced on the face OF the ticket
that to refuse under the allegations OF
the bill. to enJoin the defendants from
dealing In such tickets would be per-
mlssive to them to perpetrate or actiVely
aid In effecting n fraud on the legal ana
protective rights secured TO We carrier
under tho plain stipulations OF tho con-
tract.
III the contract is legal one, and the
defendants propose. as they admit, TO
deal In the buying and sellins 81 such
tickets ms are described In complainants'
bill, and In that way aid the henehc'ary
OF the contract W Nio ' - ~ 49,, -.
jury and damage OF the complalnants:
this relief should go to the extent OF
| forbidding the defendants to deal In such
said non-transferab BILE tickets In any way
that will enable n. person not party to
| the original contract to try to use or use
| the same to defraud and injure complain
| ants rights under the contract.
| The court then ordered that the :rrcllm-
mary injunction issue.6and this orIeF vas
promptly executed by the clerk 81 court.
who delivered over copy OF the decree
| directed to each of the defendants. for
service by the United States marshal
New Orleans Picayune. May II. 1903.