Case Name: Morris McCarthy, Appellant, v. The New York City Railway Company, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-06
Citations: 55 Misc. 208
Docket Number: 
Parties: Morris McCarthy, Appellant, v. The New York City Railway Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 55
Pages: 208–211

Head Matter:
Morris McCarthy, Appellant, v. The New York City Railway Company, Respondent.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
June, 1907.)
Carriers — Statutory penalties enforceable against carrier — Liability to penalty for refusing transfer ticket — Good faith of plaintiff.
It is only one who in good faith becomes a passenger to reach some point on a connecting line of street railway who is aggrieved by the company’s refusal to give a transfer and who can maintain an action to recover the penalty imposed by the Railroad Law for such refusal; and for that reason the judgment for the defendant herein should be affirmed.
Seabury, J., dissents on the ground that the plaintiff’s bad faith ought not to have been presumed from the mere fact that he had brought several other like actions against the defendant.
Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment in favor of the defendant, rendered in the Municipal Court of the city of Mew York, third district, borough of Manhattan.
James L. Quackenbush (Henry J. Smith, of counsel), for respondent.
Harcourt Bull, for appellant.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Judgment affirmed, with costs, upon the authority of Johnston v. N. Y. City R. Co., 54 Misc. Rep. 642, and Nicholson v. N. Y. City R. Co., 118 App. Div. 858.
Present: Gildersleeve and Platzek, JJ.