Lehigh Valley R. v. Allied Machinery Co. of America
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action at law by the Allied Machinery Company of America against the Eehigh Valley Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
The Eehigh Valley Railroad Company operates a great railroad terminal on a peninsula extending easterly from the west or New Jersey side of the Upper Bay of New York, known *901as the Black Tom Terminal. The distance from the easterly or water end to the land end is 4,900 feet, and at the easterly end there is a yard of 11 acres in extent and about 600 feet wide from the north to the south side, where loaded cars are stored.
On the night of July 29/30, 1916, there were 39 cars standing on the north side of the yard, 11 loaded with high explosives, 3 with wet nitro-cellulose, 17…
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