New York Court of Appeals

Quimby v. . Vanderbilt.

June 5, 185817 N.Y. 306

Summary

The Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court, holding that the evidence was sufficient to allow a jury to find the defendant was the principal in a contract for the plaintiff's entire passage from New York to San Francisco, and that passage tickets are merely tokens, not contracts, so parol evidence of the oral agreement is admissible.