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2018 Georgia Code 46-9-210 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 46 PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Section 9. Transportation of Freight and Passengers Generally, 46-9-1 through 46-9-332.

ARTICLE 6 CONNECTING CARRIERS GENERALLY

46-9-210. Duty of railroad companies to put on sale and to sell tickets of connecting roads and to check baggage over such roads.

No railroad company having an office or agency within this state shall refuse to put on sale or refuse to sell any ticket of any other railroad company with which the same may be directly or indirectly connected, at the price or rate fixed by the commission, for passage over lines of such connecting roads, less such amount as may be directed to be deducted from such rate by any one or more of said connecting lines. It shall be unlawful, after the sale of such ticket, to refuse to issue checks for baggage over such connecting lines, to the extent that the baggage may be allowed to be checked under the ordinary rules and regulations of said companies.

(Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 155, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 2299; Civil Code 1910, § 2753; Code 1933, § 18-501.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Former Civil COde 1910, § 2753 (see O.C.G.A. § 46-9-210) was constitutional. Stephens v. Central of Ga. Ry., 138 Ga. 625, 75 S.E. 1041, 42 L.R.A. (n.s.) 541, 1913E Ann. Cas. 609 (1912).

Purpose of section.

- The purpose of former Civil Code 1895, §§ 2299, 2300 and 2301 (see O.C.G.A. §§ 46-9-210,46-9-211 and46-9-216) was solely for the protection of railroad companies against unlawful discriminations arising from the refusal of a railroad company to sell tickets good for passage over a connecting line. Wimberly v. Georgia S. & F. Ry., 5 Ga. App. 263, 63 S.E. 29 (1908).

Statute of limitations.

- The statute of limitations applicable to a suit against a railroad company under former Civil Code 1910, § 2753 et seq. (see O.C.G.A. § 46-9-210 et seq.), was provided by former Civil Code 1910, § 4370 (see O.C.G.A. § 9-3-28). Atlanta & W.P.R.R. v. Coleman, 142 Ga. 94, 82 S.E. 499 (1914).

Pleading.

- Where the petition neither alleged that the defendant had been furnished tickets by a connecting carrier, nor that it has been tendered such tickets for sale and had refused to put them on sale, no cause of action is stated. Jones v. Louisville & N.R.R., 132 Ga. 11, 63 S.E. 627 (1908).

Cited in Bridwell v. Gate City Term. Co., 127 Ga. 520, 56 S.E. 624 (1907); Southern Ry. v. Melton, 133 Ga. 277, 65 S.E. 665 (1909); Central of Ga. Ry. v. Stephens, 141 Ga. 342, 80 S.E. 1044 (1914).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 14 Am. Jur. 2d, Carriers, § 665.

C.J.S.

- 13 C.J.S., Carriers, §§ 499, 502, 596.

ALR.

- Right of railroad to discriminate in respect of switching charges, 2 A.L.R. 585.

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