Legal Opinion

Munro v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided June 21, 1907PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights, Railroad'Company, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 28th day of 'June, 1905.

1Opinion of the Court

Hirschberg, P. J.:

The only question presented by this appeal is whether the action was brought in time. The plaintiff has"recovered a judgment for a penalty of fifty dollars incurred by -the defendant for a violation of section 104 of the Railroad Law (Laws of 1890, chap. 565, § 105, as renumbered and amd. by Laws of 1892, chap. 676) requiring it to carry a passenger for a single fare over certain lines and to give such passenger a transfer for that purpose.

■ The facts are undisputed. The plaintiff, on the 11th of April, 1904, boarded a car of the defendant’s Halsey Street line at…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Snee v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Lobdell v. Village of NorthvilleAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912
  2. Solinger v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
  3. Solinger v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907

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