Williams v. New-York Central Railroad
New York Supreme Court
This was an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment rendered against him, for costs, at a special term of the court. The action was brought to recover damages occasioned by the construction and use of the defendants’ railroad on Washington street in Syracuse, and to restrain the defendants from the further use of the same.
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This was an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment rendered against him, for costs, at a special term of the court. The action was brought to recover damages occasioned by the construction and use of the defendants’ railroad on Washington street in Syracuse, and to restrain the defendants from the further use of the same. The cause, being at issue on the complaint and answer, came on to be tried without a jury, on the 3d day of March, 1854, before the Hon. F. W. Hubbard, one of the justices of this court, at the Onondaga circuit. At the commencement of the trial, the counsel for the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Bacon, J.
On the 11th of May, 1836, by an act of the legislature of New-York, the Syracuse and Utica Railroad Company was incorporated, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a railroad between the then village of Syracuse and the city of Utica, by the most direct and eligible route, and to carry and convey passengers and property thereon, by the power and force of steam and other mechanical power. By the 4th section of the pattern act under which they were organized, (Laws of 1836, p. 317,) the directors were authorized to cause examinations and surveys for the road to…
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