Show STREET CAR LAW A gentleman desire information as follows fol lowe when a street oar car conductor in issuing a transfer ticket to a eer pu iches the wrong route and the passenger does not diacove discover the error until the conductor on the oar car tw for which the transfer was asked cornea 16 take the ticket up can fare be collected the second time in other words to ie ik A for failing to see aee that the conductor does his work correctly legally liable to the payment of an extra fart fan THIS la is a mixed question or ratter calling tor for a mixed answer a question 0 of f course tile the employed ot the street oar car company la is compelled to obey orders and he w would not do so BO if he I 1 permitted any one to ride without pay melt or a proper transfer check li it the check does not call for a ride on the part of the system on which the conductor runs but does call for a ride on some other part of the same system he would till still be in error if he received it because he be is not supposed to know anything about the business of another conductor conduct odo divi division undoubtedly be must collect a fare under the cir named on the other hand when a person a tare anti and obtains obtain a author pays says ising ting him to complete his bis journey over some other division than the one on which irwon the payment is made he thereby contracts tracts with the company not with the she agent to be delivered at his destination Sli ti nation astion or as nearly there as the route traveled ORD can take him and this la in as an binding on every other em aloye within the purview of the contract as on the one through whose direct action the contract was made repudiate it and enforce the and to payment of another fare is a violation of that contract for which the com company vany to is undoubtedly liable notwithstanding the notice posted up in each car passengers to examine ri requesting questing their transfer check they are not legally required to know whether the agent does his work properly or not in fact in such euch oases cages there are but few that can determine even by study just a perforates transfer ansler tr does call for ayt but all nave have a general knowledge ana act upon it il nor nor is the passenger to be sub jetted to 10 injury or cr antio yance because of the mistake we think the law would say bay ane passenger is 16 entitled to recover nis second payment with interest and without being beilig subjected to trouble or expense in getting it ii and if through ilo hot having the money with him 01 not oaring to pay double dauble or from any other oner cause he be does huot make the odd payment aej is ejected from the oar he can collect damages damage from the company bleir only redress redraw is agai agabi st at the author of the trouble it is tu to their interest to have only cap capable ble careal and obliging men in their shelf employ this to is probably the strictly legal aspect of toe question still we are inclined to co think chink the cause calise of these mistakes lies mere frequently at tile the door of the passenger who through indistinctness of utterance or probably through ignorance ance does ant not ask for what he wants than at the acor of the conductor the latter can have no BO object in deliberately giving a wrong transfer and a person who OR cai nut himself see tor to it that his check is to his would do 10 much better tu to pay the extra fare then than try to make a scene camene 11 over it |