Overcrowding on Railways.
•— -^ • . ;. As holiday time is coming on it is well to note the decision given at Marylebone Police Court last January in a case of assault arising out of rights of railway travellers. Mr Curtis Bennett remarked that no one had a right to enter a carriage when it was already full. Those who paid their fares af the starting- poifitt, which in this instance was Broad . street, were entitled to a .seat, hut those who took tickets at intermediate stations did so subject to there being room for them in a train If the company issued more tickets . than the train would accommodate . passengers might recover in an action for damages, or they might wait for • the next train or demand the return , of their money. Persons in a carriage which was full had a legal and a moral right to keep the door .closed . to prevent the carriage from being, overcrowded, and the sooner the public understood that the better. No one had a right to inconvenience ,- passengers already in their places.
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Manawatu Herald, 31 March 1900, Page 2
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176Overcrowding on Railways. Manawatu Herald, 31 March 1900, Page 2
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