Case Name: Margaret Connor, Respondent, v. The Metropolitan Street Railway Co., Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1899-05
Citations: 27 Misc. 541
Docket Number: 
Parties: Margaret Connor, Respondent, v. The Metropolitan Street Railway Co., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 541–542

Head Matter:
Margaret Connor, Respondent, v. The Metropolitan Street Railway Co., Appellant.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
May, 1899.)
Negligence — Passenger alighting from street car — Judgment, against the weight of evidence.
A judgment for a street-car passenger must be reversed where her statement that she was injured because the ear started after it had stopped and while she was alighting* is contested by the conductor, the gripman, a bicycle patrolman and a passenger who state that the accident happened before she reached her street,, and that she alighted -while the car was in motion.
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Municipal Court, ■ tenth district, borough of Manhattan, rendered in favor of the plaintiff.
Henry A. Robinson, for appellant.
Lawrence. P. Mingey, for respondent.

Opinion:
MacLean, J.
According to the plaintiff's version, she, a woman of sixty, being a passenger on the car of the defendant going downtown, asked the' conductor to stop at Twenty-third street, she heard the bell ring for the gripman to stop the car, the conductor called out Twenty-third street, and when it had come to a stop, she stepped down, putting her right foot down, taking hold of the rail, and just as she was taking hold of the rail, the car started and she was pulled down on her right side, and thrown upon the street.' The car stopped, as she said, just where she asked it to- stop, but where, with reference to the two crosswalks on Twenty-third street, or whether it • was on the north side of Twenty-third street, she could not remember. Eor the defendant four witnesses, the conductor, the gripman, a bicycle patrolman and a -passenger, tes-' tilled that the accident happened north of Twenty-third street, and that the plaintiff alighted from the car before it had come- to a stop at all (giving incidents with circumstantiality).
The judgment should be reversed, with costs. Pierce v. Metropolitan Street R. Co., 21 App. Div. 427.
Fbeedmaw, P. J., concurs; Levextbitt, J., taking no part.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered,, with costs to appellant to abide' event.