Venner v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Clarence H. Venner, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 18th day of May, 1916, upon the decision of the court dismissing the complaint on the merits after a trial at the Westchester Special Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 15th day of May, 1916, granting the defendants an extra allowance of $2,000.
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
Under the name of the New York Central Railroad Company (incorporated April 16, 1913), there has been a consolidation of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company and nine other companies. Thus the city of New York is directly connected by railway with Chicago. But there are other terminals. Northerly and southerly of the line noted, in itself nearly 1,000 miles in length, stretches a vast territory of incalculable agricultural and mineral wealth, and containing industrial and commercial centers, Pittsburg,…
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