Levine v. Nassau Electric Railroad

The action was brought to recover fifty dollars as a penalty for the failure on the part of defendant to issue a transfer from the Hamburg avenue line to the Douglass street line in Brooklyn, both lines being admittedly owned and controlled by the defendant. The only dispute upon the facts is as to whether the plaintiff asked for the transfer at the time he paid his fare or at some time thereafter. The plaintiff claimed that he asked for a transfer on the bridge at the time he paid his fare. The conductor claimed that he did not demand a transfer until after he had been riding on the car for…