Raynor v. New York & Long Island Traction Co.

The plaintiff sues to recover damages for an assault and battery alleged to have been committed upon her by four of the defendant’s employees on the 1st day of May, 1913, when she was a passenger on one of the defendant’s cars. The case was tried before the court and a jury, but at the close of the evidence counsel for both sides entered into a stipulation discharging the jury and submitting’ the case to the court for decision both upon the facts and the law.

The evidence shows that the plaintiff boarded one of the defendant’s cars at Milburn avenue, Baldwin (railroad stop No. 81), bound for…