Case Name: PAGE v. UNITED TRACTION CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1914-03-13
Citations: 146 N.Y.S. 530
Docket Number: 
Parties: PAGE v. UNITED TRACTION CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 146
Pages: 530–533

Head Matter:
(161 App. Div. 383)
PAGE v. UNITED TRACTION CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department.
March 13, 1914.)
1. Cabbiebs (§ 314 )—Injury to Passenger—Pleading—Sufficiency.
A complaint, alleging that plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’scar; that she signaled the conductor that she wished to alight; that the-car stopped at a point where, in the course of repairing the street, a hole-had been made, and 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—alleges a cause of action.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Carriers, Cent. Dig. §§ 1260, 1270, 1273, 1274, 1276-1280; Dec. Dig. § 314. ]
2. Pleading (§ 34 )—Demurrer—Construction oe Pleading.
Upon demurrer, the complaint is to be favorably construed for the pleader.
[Ed. Note.—Eor other cases, see Pleading, Cent. Dig. §§ 5%, 66-74; Dec. Dig. § 34. ]
Woodward, J., dissenting.
Appeal from Trial Term, Rensselaer County.
Action by Lillian Page against the United Traction Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
Reversed.
Argued before SMITH, P. J., and KELLOGG, LYON, HOWARD, and WOODWARD, JJ.
Thomas F. Powers, of Troy, for appellant.
Patrick C. Dugan, of Albany, for respondent.
For other cases see same, topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes
For other cases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
JOHN M. KELLOGG, J.
[1] 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 in both courts to abide the event, and a new trial granted. All concur, except