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Show IT HAS BEEN officially decided that a railroad company or steamboat corporation has no right to detain or imprison a passenger for refusing or neglecting to pay his fare. The Metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company detained a passenger, because at the end of his journey he had lost his ticket and had tried to force himself past the gate. The court awarded him $100 damages. A Harvard student, last summer, going to Newport, bought a through ticket to New York for a dollar, the fare to Newport being $1.60. The officers of the boat kept him on board by force at Newport until he had paid the extra sixty cents. The court adjudged him $75 damages for false imprisonment. Another passenger lost his ticket during the night, and was not allowed to depart next morning until he had left his watch in pawn for his ticket. The court gave him $50. |