Legal Opinion

Zorn v. State

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided November 15, 1899PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal by the claimant, Frederick Zorn, from a judgment and order of the Court of Claims, bearing date the lHh day of March, 1898, and entered in the office of thé clerk of said court, dismissing his claim. '

1Opinion of the Court

Merwin, J.:

In June, 1893, the claimant was engaged in the transportation business and owned a canal boat, which was loaded with a cargo of coal at Fewburgh on the Hudson river, consigned to A. D. Judson’s coal yard at Lansingburgh, F. Y. The boat proceeded to her destination, arriving there on the evening of Friday, June ninth, and was tied up on the outside of a canal boat which was alongside the wharf of the Judson coal yard. In the early morning of June twelfth there was a break in the Troy State dam, which is located *164between Lansingburgh and Troy. This break operated to lower the water in…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Locke v. . StateNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
  2. Rexford v. . State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1887

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Glens Falls Insurance v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1947
  2. Penn No. 5, Inc. v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1953
  3. Sayer v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1921
  4. United States v. MonstadCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1943
  5. Condon v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1938

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