Killeen v. U. S. Lines Operations, Inc.

234 A.D. 789

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: November 15, 1931
• Status: Published

Opinion

— Order of Appellate Term affirming judgment of the Municipal Court dismissing the complaint for insufficiency reversed upon the law and the facts, with costs to appellant to abide the event, and motion to dismiss denied, with leave to defendant to answer within ten days from the entry of the order herein. The plaintiff was entitled under his complaint to prove that he had been deprived of access to deck C. He was also entitled to prove that during the night unusual noises occurred outside and in front of the staterooms occupied by him, and that although complaint thereof was made by him, no effort to remedy the condition was made by those in charge. This view does not imply any distinction between those to whom the use of deck C is alleged to have been given and those persons characterized as first class passengers. The point involved is plaintiff’s deprivation of the use of the deck for himself and his family and the discomfort and inconvenience to which he was subjected by reason of the preventable noises. (Campbell v. Pullman Company, 182 App. Div. 931.) Young, Kapper and Scudder, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., concurs upon the second ground stated; Hagarty, J., dissents and votes to affirm.