Lead Opinion
The plaintiff was ejected from one of the defendant’s cars and the action is brought to recover the damages suffered by her thereby.
The plaintiff was working in the factory of Corliss, Coon & Co., in Cohoes. There was evidence in the case justifying the jury in finding the following facts: The plaintiff left the factory of her employers about ten minutes of one on Saturday afternoon, May 8, 1920; she took a car of the defendant company on Ontario street, paying her fare, and rode thereon to the corner of Ontario and Mohawk streets in Cohoes, which is a transfer point; while in this car, she, with two others employed in the same shop, procured from the conductor
There is a sharp dispute as to the time punched on the transfer offered to the conductor by this plaintiff, and which he refused to accept. He states that it was punched at twelve-fifteen. The plaintiff does not know what became of the transfer slip, and it is not produced. It is claimed that it was left on the floor of the car. The plaintiff does not know the time punched on the transfer slip. If the jury had found that the time punched on the transfer slip was twelve-fifteen, as claimed by the conductor, under the charge of the trial court and under Monnier v. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co. (175 N. Y. 281), it may be conceded here that the plaintiff could not recover. The conductor was required to act under the reasonable rules of the company, and, when a passenger enters a car, he must subject himself to these reasonable rules. If the plaintiff had presented a transfer, the time on which was punched an hour before it was presented, the conductor could . not accept the transfer, and plaintiff was required to yield and pay her fare. But in this case the evidence presents a question of fact for the jury as to the time when this transfer was punched, whether the time punched was more than fifteen minutes before the transfer was tendered. The time punched
We have examined the errors claimed by the appellant to have been committed by the trial court and do not find any which requires a reversal of the judgment.
The judgment should, therefore, be affirmed, with costs.
John M. Kellogg, P. J., Woodward and Cochrane, JJ., concur; H. T. Kellogg, J., dissents, with an opinion.
Dissenting Opinion
The plaintiff was a passenger upon an “ Ontario street ” car, and desired a transfer to a “ white line ” car at the
Judgment affirmed, with costs.
