Slingerland v. International Contracting Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Cornelius H. Slingerland, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 18th day of November, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury, -rendered by direction of the court for six cents damage's, and, also (as stated in the notice of appeal), from an order denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Cornelius H. Slingerland, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 18th day of November, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury, -rendered by direction of the court for six cents damage's, and, also (as stated in the notice of appeal), from an order denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. Also an appeal by the defendant, The International Contracting Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Greene County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Landon, J.:
The learned trial court, in directing a verdict in favor of. the plaintiff for. six cents, 'in effect found the fact to be that the defendants had deposited the material which they dredged from the river channel in such places in the river as to impair the usual facilities of access to his uplands, and to trespass upon or injure his two-acre tract .under water which he held by grant from the State. But the most important of plaintiff’s claims for damages were for injury to his alleged exclusive fight of fishery and.of gathering ice opposite his uplands. The court held that he had…
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