Ray v. Cortland & Homer Traction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Cortland and Homer Traction Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Cortland on the 2d day of November, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury for the sum of $100, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of September,' 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
The plaintiff claims that in July, 1896, she was wrongfully ejected and expelled by the defendant, or its agents, from one of its street cars while she was properly riding thereon as a passenger. The recovery is upon that basis.
The defendant operates a street railroad from the village of Cortland, through Main street, to the "village of Homer, a distance-of about three miles. The plaintiff lives in the village of Cortland, and upon the day in question she, with her husband, went to Homer, and when ready to start back they got on to one of the defendant’s cars. The through fare to…
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