Wright v. Syracuse, B. & N. Y. R. Co.
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Broome county. Appeal.from a judgment awarding the plaintiff a mandatory injunction requiring the defendant to restore to its original channel a stream of water adjudged to have beer iiverted by it to the injury of the plaintiff, and awarding damages sustain-,-A by reason of such diversion.
1Opinion of the CourtKennedy, J.
In 1830 the late John A. Collier became*the owner of a tract of land comprising about 218 acres, situate north of and near the present boundary of the city of Binghamton, in the county of Broome. He continued the owner of said lands until his death, which occurred in March, 1873. About the year 1853 the Syracuse & Binghamton Railroad Company, the defendant’s predecessor, obtained from said Collier, by grant, a strip of land running across said tract north and south, upon which the railroad now operated by the defendant was about that time built. At a point near where the railroad crosses the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Campbell v. . SeamanNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Mohawk & Hudson Rail Road v. ArtcherNew York Court of Chancery · 1836
- Reed v. . the StateNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Adams v. . PophamNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
- Snedeker v. WarringNew York Court of Appeals · 1854
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- Barnes v. HagarNew York Supreme Court · 1913