Bull v. New York City Railway Co.

121 A.D. 582, 106 N.Y.S. 378, 1907 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1848

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: October 23, 1907
• Status: Published

Opinions

Hooker, J.:

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Municipal Court for the penalty for the refusal to issue a transfer. On cross-examination the plaintiff testified that he rode to the transfer point “ with the sole object of simply traveling over the line to see what would be done ; ” and “ Q. If you had received a transfer, you had no business beyond the point at which your transfer was honored ? A. I had obtained the information I was after.” It is obvious that the plaintiff was not “ aggrieved ” as the term is used in the statute.

The judgment should be reversed on the authority of Nicholson v. New York City R. Co. No. 4 (118 App. Div. 858).

Hirschberg, P. J., and Jerks, J., concurred, the latter on the authority of Myers v. Brooklyn Heights R. R. Co. (10 App. Div. 335); GayNor, J., read for affirmance, with whom Woodward, J., concurred.