Hanley v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 21st day of June, 1904, upon the verdict ■ of a jury for $600, and also "from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of July, 19(34, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon th(e minutes. . • '
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J,:
The plaintiff conlplained that the defendant’s conductor assaulted her when a passenger, and attempted to eject her from a car of its electric street surfaCe railroad.' The defendant made general denial, and appeals from a' judgment, of $600 entered on the verdict of the jury. .
The plaintiff and her companion were passengers in. a car of the Hostrand avenue line. They paid their fares and received transfer tickets. ■ The tickets read : “ Good only for the-day printed hereon, witlrin the "time limit punched and at. intersection of issuing line.” The two women left the Hostrand avenue…
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