New York Central Railroad v. Maloney

The Hudson River Railroad Company, predecessor of the plaintiff, appellant herein, during the year 1848 was engaged in the construction of a railroad from the city of New York to a point opposite the city of Albany on the north, and later constructed a double-track railroad between said termini practically as the same existed at the time of the commencement of this proceeding.

In 1848 one Van Amburg was the owner of two certain parcels of land in Dutchess county on the line adopted *210for the contemplated railroad, which parcels of land are hereinafter referred to as the north and south parcel,…