station

a place or position; and it may be said that wherever a man, iri pursuance of orders, stays or remains, he is stationed, and that if he is a military man, such place becomes a military station.

In civil law. A place where ships may ride in safety. Dig. 49. 12. 1. 13; Id. 50. 15. 59.

In Civil Law. A place where ships may ride in safety. Dig. 49. 12. 1. 13; 50. 15. 59. A railroad company may exclude from its stations all persons except those using or desirous of using the railway, and may impose upon the rest of the public any terms it may deem proper as the condition of admittance; 11897] A. C. 479; to the same effect, 18 C. B. 46. Where a railroad company promises to build and maintain a station and stop two trains a day for the use of one who has been induced thereby to purchase land, the railroad may be excused from such promise if its duty to the public is thereby disturbed; Atlanta & W. P. R. Co. v. Camp, 130 Ga. 1, 60 S. E. 177, 15 L. li. A. (N. S.) 594, 124 Am. St. Rep. 151, 14 Ann. Cas. 439. A railroad company is bound to use only such degree of care in constructing its stations and platforms as is sufficient to protect passengers using ordinary care from injury; Lauterer v. R. Co., 128 Fed. 540, 63 C. C. A. 38. See Depot.

In the broadest sense, a place, position, or post. Con:ipare Status. 1. It may be said that wherever a man stays in pursuance of orders, he is " stationed," and that if he is a military man, such place becomes a " military station." But as used in the army laws and regulations, "military station" is synonymous with "military post," and means a place where troops are assembled, where military stores are kept or distributed, where military duty is performed, or military protection afforded,—where, in short, something more or less closely connected with arms or war is kept or is to be done.^ 2. A stopping place at which passenger tickets are ordinarily sold; as, within the meaning of a statute 1 Claflin V. Houseman, 93 U. S. 136-43 (1876), cases, Bradley, J.; Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 1 Wheat. 334 (1816), Story, J. 2 Keith V. Clark, 97 U. S. 462 (1878); White v. Hart, 13 Wall. 651 (1871). 3 R. S. § 3140. 4 The Ullock, 19 F. E. 907 (1884); R. S. § 4236. See also 2 Cranch, 445; 1 Wheat. 91; 5 How. 377; 6 Wall. ^•87; 8 Saw. 321. forbidding a railroad company to eject a person from its cars for non-payment of fare, except at " some passenger station." In another statute or connection a different sense nlay be intended.^ As to what constitutes a " station or depot," within the meaning of a statute providing that no railway company shall abandon any station or depot on it's road, after the same has been established twelve months, except by the approval of the railroad commissioners after public notice and a hearing had, has been discussed in two cases in Connecticut,^ See Abandon, 1; Depot, 2; Rajlroad; Usual.

In the broadest sense, station means place or position. It may be said that, wherever a man stays in pursuance of orders, he is stationed, and that, if he is a military man, such place becomes a military station. But, as used in the army laws and regulations, military station is synonymous with military post, and means a place where troops are assembled; where military stores are kept or distributed; where military duty is performed, or military protection afforded, — where something, in short, more or less closely connected with arms or war, is kept or is to be done. It would be a misuse of language to designate, as a post or a military station, a cottage in a country village, in no way distinguishable, in its use or appointments, from every other residence in the village, because one of the persons who lives in it is an officer in the army. Hence, an officer who, pursuant to orders, has left his former station, and gone to his home, and remained there awaiting orders, cannot be said to have made an exchange of stations. His home is not a station. United States v. Phisterer, 94 U. S. 219, 220. Station. As used in a statute forbidding a railroad company to abandon a station, without the consent of the railroad commissioners, does not apply to a mere platform, at which certam daily trains stop to take or leave passengers, but at which no office or agent is kept, nor tickets sold. State V. New Haven, &c. R. R. Co., 41 Cmn. 134.