Case Name: Johanna Miller Moosman, as Administratrix, etc., of Jacob Henry Moosman, Deceased, Appellant, v. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1915-12
Citations: 172 A.D. 898
Docket Number: 
Parties: Johanna Miller Moosman, as Administratrix, etc., of Jacob Henry Moosman, Deceased, Appellant, v. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 172
Pages: 898–899

Head Matter:
Johanna Miller Moosman, as Administratrix, etc., of Jacob Henry Moosman, Deceased, Appellant, v. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Respondent.

Opinion:
Judgment reversed on reargument, and new trial granted, costs to abide the event. The defense of contributory negligence is not pleaded. To be proved, it must be pleaded. (See Code Civ. Proc. § 841b ; Sackheim v. Pigueron, 215 N. Y. 62.) Otherwise, the plaintiff would be compelled to enter into a controversy over a matter concerning which she had no notification in the answer, that the defendant proposed to assert as an exemption from liability. Jenks, P. J., Carr, Stapleton and Putnam, JJ., concurred..
Added by Laws of 1918, chap. 228.— [Rep.