Corning v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtHalpebh, J.
The question presented in this case is whether the defendant Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, as the successor to the Cayuga Lake Railroad Company, owned the land occupied by it as part of its right of way in fee simple or whether it merely had a railroad easement.
The Cayuga Lake Railroad Company was incorporated on July 1, 1867 under chapter 140 of the Laws of 1850 for the pur*159pose of constructing a railroad from the tracks of the New York Central Railroad at Auburn, New York, to Ithaca, New York. The articles of association stated that the length of the proposed railroad line was 37 miles.…
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