PASSENGER. One who has taken a place in a public conveyance, by virtue of a con tract, for the purpose of being transported from one place to another, on the payment of fare or its equivalent. Bricker v. R. Co., 132 Pa. 1, 18 Atl. 983, 19 Am. St. Rep. 585.
The Nature of the Relation between Car rier and Passenger. "The rights, privileges, and protection attaching to the relation of a passenger are imposed by law upon common carriers upon considerations of public policy, independent of contract, and arise from the nature of their public employment ;" Mc Neill v. R. Co., 135 N. C. 682, 47 S. E. 765, 67 L. R. A. 227.
The purchase of a ticket and the entry by a person on the premises or accommo dations of the carrier creates the relation of passenger and carrier with all its rights, duties, and obligations ; Wabash, St. L. & P. R. Co. v. Rector, 104 Ill. 296; Allender v. R. Co., 37 Ia. 264; so does entry on the premises with the intention of buying a tick et; Norfolk & W. R. Co. v. Galliher, 89 Va. 639, 16 S. E. 935.
One becomes a passenger when in the sta tion waiting for a train ; Warner v. R. Co.,
168 U. S. 339, 18 Sup. Ct. 68, 42 L. Ed. 491; Exton v. R. Co., 63 N. J. L. 356, 46 Atl. 1099, 56 L. R. A. 508, and Atchison, T. & S. P. Ry. Co. v. Holloway, 71 Kan. 1, 80 Pac. 31, 114 Am. St. Rep. 462 (but not crossing the track with a ticket in his pocket, not been to the depot; Chicago & E. I. R. Co. v. Jen nings, 190 Ill. 478, 60 N. E. 818, 54 L. R. A. 827; Southern R. Co. v. Smith, 86 Fed. 292, 30 C. C. A. 58, 40 L. R. A. 746) ; or when he purchased a ticket and passed through the turn-stile to take a train; Illinois Cent.
R. Co. v. Treat, 179 Ill. 576, 54 N. L. 290; or with a return ticket waiting in the sta tion for a train; Chicago & A. R. Co. v. Walker, 217 Ill. 605, 75 N. E. 520. One who gets on the wrong train by his own mistake is a passenger and entitled to care and pro tection ; Lewis v. Canal Co., 145 N. Y. 508, 40 N. E. 248; Cincinnati, H. & I. R. Co. v. Carper, 112 Ind. 26, 13 N. E. 122, 14 N, E. 352, 2 Am. St. Rep. 144; even if a freight train; Boggess v. R. Co., 37 W. Va. 297, 16