Brown v. . the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad Co.

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[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The defendants upon the trial contended that inasmuch as they had no agency in placing or building the obstruction in the stream, or in making the excavation or sluice-way through the bank, but both had been done by the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, long before the defendants were incorporated or became interested in the…