Carpenter v. New York City Railway Co.

The plaintiff, in company with her husband, boarded a west-bound car of the Twenty-Third Street Line at or near Fifth avenue, with the purpose of going to Fifty-Eighth street and Sixth avenue. The husband paid the fares of both, and asked for transfers for both to the Sixth Avenue Line, which would take them to their destination. The transfers were refused by the .defendant’s agent, whereupon the plaintiff and her husband alighted from the car at Sixth avenue, and boarded a north-bound Sixth avenue car, where the husband again paid fares for both. It is conceded that the defendant operated,…