Ticket

A railroad ticket is a receipt or voucher, rather than a contract; 5 L. R. A. 818, note; Logan v. R. Co., 77 Mo. 663; Prank v. Ingalls, 41 Ohio St. 560; it is the evidence of a contract, hut does not constitute the whole contract; 34 Ain. & Eng. It. R. Cas. 219; Kansas City, St. J. & C. B. R. Co. v. Rodebaugh, 38 Kan. 45, 15 Pac. 899, 5 Am. St. Rep. 715; it may contain some condition or limitation which becomes a part of the contract; Terry v. R. Co., 13 Hun (N. Y.) 359; Lake S. & M. S. Ry. Co. v. Rosenzweig, 113 Pa. 519, 6 Atl. 545. The actual contract may be shown by parol testimony; New York, L. E. & W. R. Co. v. Winter, 143 U. S. 60, 12 Sup. Ct. 350, 36 L. Ed. 71; Peterson v. Ry. Co., SO la. 92, 45 N. W. 573; and that, not the ticket, which is merely evidence of it, controls the rights and duties of carriers and passengers; C. N. O. & T. P. R. Co. v. Harris, 115 Tenn. 501, 91 S. W. 211, 5