The company is under a public duty, as a common carrier of passengers, to receive all who offer themselves as such and are ready to pay the usual fare, and is liable in damages to a party whom it refuses to carry without a reasonable excuse.
Sumner asserts that common carriers have a public duty to accept all paying passengers unless there is a reasonable excuse.
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