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Passenger Carrier's Liability Extended Beyond Its Own Line By Ticket Sale Transaction--Ephraim V. Safeway Trails, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Passenger Carrier's Liability Extended Beyond Its Own Line By Ticket Sale Transaction--Ephraim V. Safeway Trails, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a Negro woman, purchased a roundtrip bus ticket in New York City for travel between there and Montgomery, Alabama. The ticket was sold by defendant, an interstate common carrier licensed to do business in New York, and consisted of a strip of coupon tickets, each good for a separate portion of the journey over the lines of defendant and other independent carriers. Printed on the back of each coupon was a clause limiting defendant's liability to its own line.1 Defendant received a ten per cent commission on those connecting tickets it sold for the other lines, and on the …