LEBRON v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTH.


44 N.Y.2d 782 (1978)

Margaret R. Lebron, Appellant, v. New York City Transit Authority, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 27, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Schulman and W. Harvey Mayer for appellant.

John A. Murray, Alphonse E. D'Ambrose and Helen R. Cassidy for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE concur in memorandum.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs to abide the event, and the case remitted to Supreme Court for a new trial.

The trial court charged the jury without exception that the provision in the free pass, on which plaintiff was riding at the time of the accident, exempting defendant from liability would be binding on plaintiff if she had received the pass as a gratuity, but not...

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