Lagoy v. Director General of Railroads
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Edward LaGoy, as administrator, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Clinton on the 31st day of October, 1919, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day granting defendant’s motion for a nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Kiley, J.:
The Rutland Railroad Company is a domestic corporation and operates a railroad between the city of Rutland in the State of Vermont and the city of Ogdensburg in the State of New York. As it crosses the intervening territory between its two terminals it passes through the village or hamlet of Irona, Clinton county, in this State. It does maintain, and had for fifty years maintained, a station for passengers, express and freight at Irona above mentioned. At this point the railroad runs east and west and is crossed by a highway, at about right angles, at or very near the station. This…
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