Peaslee v. Town of Chatham
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Columbia county. Action by George H. Peaslee, as executor of Horace W. Peaslee, deceased, against the town of Chatham. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMayham, P. J.
This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a nonsuit granted by a judge at the Columbia circuit. The action was prosecuted by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover for the alleged negligence of the defendant in failing to place a suitable railing along the outside of a bridge over the Kmderhook creek, which the defendant was bound to maintain as a part of a public highway in that town, by reason of which the plaintiff’s testator fell from the bridge, and was killed. The evidence discloses that the plaintiff’s testator, for many years previous to his death, resided at Malden…
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- Hart v. . Hudson River Bridge CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- Reynolds v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Cordell v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Bond v. . SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Connolly v. . Knickerbocker Ice Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1889
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- Farrell v. Town of North ElbaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906