Davis v. New York Central Railroad

Action by passenger against common carrier to recover forty-seven dollars and eighty cents damages for defendant’s failure to furnish a seat to plaintiff on a trip from Albany to New York city.

July 12, 1936, plaintiff purchased a ticket from defendant for his transportation from Albany to the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street station, New York city. Plaintiff testified that when he arrived at the platform, about six-forty-five p. m., there was a *711locomotive with four passenger coaches in the station; that announcements were being made that more cars were being added; that there were several…