New York Court of Appeals March 27, 1906 (Goodspeed v. Ithaca Street Railway Co.)

Gray, J.

This appeal involves the construction of section 39 of the Railroad Law, which provides that “ any railroad corporation, which shall ask or receive more than the lawful rate of fare, unless such overcharge was made through inadvertence or mistake, not amounting to gross negligence, shall forfeit fifty dollars, to be recovered,” etc.