Case Name: Lillian Page, Appellant, v. United Traction Company, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1914-03-13
Citations: 161 A.D. 383
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lillian Page, Appellant, v. United Traction Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 161
Pages: 383–387

Head Matter:
Lillian Page, Appellant, v. United Traction Company, Respondent.
Third Department,
March 13, 1914.
Pleading — sufficiency of complaint in action by passenger for injuries sustained while alighting from car.
A complaint which alleges in substance that the plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s car; that she signaled the conductor that she wished to alight; that the car stopped at the point named, where in the course of repairing the street a hole had been made; that as she was “ about to alight” she stepped into a hole and sustained injuries, which were due to the carelessness and negligence of the defendant’s officers and servants, and without any negligence on her part, states a cause of action. .
Woodward, J., dissented, with opinion.
Appeal by the plaintiff, Lillian Page, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Eensselaer on the 15th day of May, 1913, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction • of the court at the opening.
Thomas F. Powers, for the appellant.
Patrick C. Dugan, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Kellogg, J.:
The plaintiff alleges in substance that she was a passenger on the defendant's car, that she signaled the conductor that she wished to alight, that the car stopped at a point named where, in the course of repairing the street, a hole had been made. As she was "about to alight" from the car she stepped into the hole and received her injury, that the injury was due to the carelessness and negligence of the defendant's officers and servants in the premises and without any negligence on her part.
Upon demurrer the complaint is to be favorably construed for the pleader. It means that when signaled to stop the car made the stop at a place where there was a hole in the street and that in alighting from the car the plaintiff, without fault on her part, stepped into the hole. I think it alleges a cause of action.
The judgment should, therefore, be reversed, with' costs to the appellant to abide the event, and a new trial granted.
All concurred, except Woodward, J., dissenting in opinion.