Morison v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Sullivan on the 30th day of September, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,200, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.-
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiff owns a tract of land in the town of Bethel, Sullivan county, containing about 3,100 acres and which he claims is valuable for a preserve for hunting and fishing purposes, as well as for the timber upon it.
In the spring of 1900 the defendant telephone company cut a strip in a somewhat diagonal direction the length of the entire tract, being a distance of more than two and a half miles and of the average width of twenty-four feet.
The growing timber on this strip was cut down and left untrimmed, and poles set in the ground and telephone wires strung on them the whole…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Argotsinger v. . VinesNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- Mott v. LewisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
3Cited by3 opinions
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