Conger v. N. Y., West Shore & Buffalo R. R. Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the general term of the second department, affirming a judgment entered upon the decision of the: special term.
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
This action was brought to compel a specific performance of a contract. The Jersey City & Albany Railway Company was incorporated for the purpose of constructing and oper ating a railroad from Fort Montgomery, in the county of Orange,, to a point in the Hudson river opposite to the city of Hew York.. As such incorporation it entered into a written agreement with one Catherine A. Hedges, the plaintiff’s grantor, in and by the-terms of which she gave to the company a right of way across her premises in Rockland county upon certain conditions, one of which was that the company should locate a…
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