Buck v. Webb
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, New York county. Action by Jerome Buck against W. Seward Webb, as president of the Wagner Palace-Car Company, for damages for being excluded from a seat in a drawing-room car "of that company, which plaintiff alleged he had purchased. Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury for plaintiff, and from an order setting aside the verdict, and granting a new trial on •conditions.
1Opinion of the CourtDaniels, J.
The verdict was for the sum of $1,000, for the damages which the jury concluded the plaintiff had sustained by his exclusion from Beat 23, in the drawing-room car Nokomis, for which he had paid $1.50 for his passage from Saratoga Springs to the city of New York. The ticket had been obtained by him from an agent representing the company in the village of Saratoga Springs, and it in form entitled him to tiiat seat, biit only on this train, and for the day on which it was issued. His evidence, which the jury *618must have credited to render the verdict they did in his favor, was that, after the…
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