Town of Pierrepont v. . Loveless
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee. This action was brought to recover damages for the destruction of a bridge across the Backet river, m the town of Bierrepont, alleged to have been occasioned by defendants' negligence. The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion. Plaintiff had no right of action in the subject-matter in question.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee. This action was brought to recover damages for the destruction of a bridge across the Backet river, m the town of Bierrepont, alleged to have been occasioned by defendants' negligence. The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion. Plaintiff had no right of action in the subject-matter in question. (Cornell v. B. & O. Tpke. Co., 25 Wend., 365; Morey v. Town of Newfane, 8 Barb., 645; Whart. on Neg., 956, 957; Town of…
1Opinion of the CourtRapallo, J.
The referee finds that, in the winter of 1866-7, the defendants, who are thirteen in number, or the several firms of which some of them were members, severally caused to be cut and placed on the ice in Eaeket river a large number of saw-logs, for the purpose of being floated down the river to their several mills during the high water in the spring of 1867; that on the 2d of March, 1867, they entered into a written contract with John Snell and John Douglass, by which the latter agreed to take all the logs of the respective defendants which were or should be put into the Eaclcet river during…
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