Bowen v. . State of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an award of the board of claims made March 9, 1887. The claim was for damages for the death of Michael Bowen, plaintiff’s intestate, alleged to have been caused by the negligence on the part of the state officers having charge of the Erie canal in leaving the railing of a bridge in a dangerous and insecure condition. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
The board of claims awarded the plaintiff $1,500 as damages for the death of her husband resulting from the negligence of the state. The attorney general has appealed from that decision. Under the acts regulating such appeals, as amended, only questions of law are open to our consideration, except that we may pass upon the insufficiency or excess of the damages awarded. 27o complaint is made in the present case that they exceeded a just amount, and so we are concerned only with such questions of law as are raised in the case. (Laws of 1884, chap. 60, § 6; Laws of 1887, chap. 507, § 1.)
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- Sipple v. . the StateNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
- Rexford v. . State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
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