Case Name: Evelyn Gasper, Respondent, v. The New York City Railway Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1906-06
Citations: 51 Misc. 43
Docket Number: 
Parties: Evelyn Gasper, Respondent, v. The New York City Railway Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 51
Pages: 43–43

Head Matter:
Evelyn Gasper, Respondent, v. The New York City Railway Company, Appellant.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
June, 1906.)
Carriers — Statutory penalties enforceable against carriers—Liability to penalty for refusing transfer ticket.
Street railways — Operation — Statutory regulation — Fares.
A recovery in an action for refusal to give a street railway passenger a transfer can be sustained only upon strict proof of the violation of the statute, and proof, simply, that the plaintiff asked for and received a transfer does not justify a recovery if the transfer is not good in the direction she desires to travel.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in the Municipal Court of the city of New York, twelfth district, borough of Manhattan.
Frank D. Wynn, for appellant*
N. L. Reach, for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Guriam.
There is a difference in the record be- ' fore us, in this case, which, in our judgment, makes a distinction from that of the case of Erma Gasper v. New York City Railway Co., anie, p. 39, and calls for the reversal of this' judgment. In the Erma Gasper case, the request of the passenger was clearly made for a transfer " south," along Amsterdam avenue, and we have decided that this was refused. In the case under consideration, the proof is that the plaintiff asked for a transfer to Amsterdam avenue and she received same. As this action is for the recovery of a penalty, based upon the refusal to obey the mandate of a statute, we feel that judgment should be sustained only upon strict proof of the violation thereof and, upon this record, we do not believe the necessary refusal has been established.
Present: Gildersleeve, Leventritt, and McCall, JJ.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event.