Case Name: William J. Johnston, Respondent, v. The New York City Railway Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-06
Citations: 55 Misc. 205
Docket Number: 
Parties: William J. Johnston, Respondent, v. The New York City Railway Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 55
Pages: 205–208

Head Matter:
William J. Johnston, Respondent, v. The New York City Railway Company, Appellant.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
June, 1907.)
Carriers — Státutory 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 fov such refusal; and for that reason the judgment in favor of the plaintiff herein should be reversed.
Seabury, J., dissents on the ground that the plaintiff, under the evidence, established his good faith.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in the Municipal Court of the city of New York, second district, borough of The Bronx.
James L. Quaekenbush (Henry J. Smith, of counsel), for appellant.
E. V. R. Ketchum, for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event, on the authority of Nicholson v. N. Y. City R. Co., 118 App. Div. 858, and Johnston v. N. Y. City R. Co., 54 Misc. Rep. 642.
Present: Gildersleeve and Platzek, JJ.