Case Name: BULL v. NEW YORK CITY RY. CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-10-23
Citations: 106 N.Y.S. 378
Docket Number: 
Parties: BULL v. NEW YORK CITY RY. CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 106
Pages: 378–380

Head Matter:
(121 App. Div. 582.)
BULL v. NEW YORK CITY RY. CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
October 23, 1907.)
Oarriers^-Oarriage of Passengers—Refusal to Give Transfers—Penalties.
Where it is shown that one became a passenger merely to see whether or not the company was giving transfers as provided, and that he had no business beyond the point of transfer, he is not aggrieved, within the meaning of the statute, by the company’s refusal to issue him a transfer.
Gaynor and Woodward, JJ., dissenting.
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Richmond, Second District.
Action for penalty by Harcourt Bull against the New York City Railway Company. From a judgment for' plaintiff, defendant appealed. Reversed.
Argued before HIRSCHBERG, P. J., and WOODWARD, JENKS, HOOKER, and GAYNOR, JJ.
James L. Quackenbush (Henry F. Gannon, on the brief), for appellant.
Harcourt Bull, pro se.

Opinion:
HOOKER, J.
This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment. of the Municipal Court for the penalty for the refusal to issue a transfer. On cro.ss-examination the plaintiff testified that he rode to the transfer point "with the sole object of simply traveling over the line to see what would be done," and:
"Q. If you had received a transfer, you had no business beyond the point at which your transfer was honored? A. I had obtained the information I was after:"
It is obvious that the plaintiff was not "aggrieved," as the term is used in the statute. The judgment should be reversed, on the authority of Nicholson v. New York City Railway Company, 118 App. Div. 858, 103 N. Y. S. 695.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered; costs to abide event.
HIRSCHBERG, P. J., concurs. JENKS, J., concurs, on the authority of Myers v. Brooklyn Heights R. Co., 10 App. Div. 335, 41 N. Y. Supp. 798.