Oswego Syracuse R.R. Co. v. . State
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment entered February 8, 1919, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, which reversed a judgment of the Court of Claims dismissing the plaintiffs’ claim upon the merits and directed judgment absolute in favor of plaintiffs. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCardozo, J.
In 1848 the Oswego and Syracuse Railroad Company, then engaged in the construction of its road, built a bridge across the Seneca river near the village of Baldwinsville. The road was thereafter leased to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company during the life of the lessor. The Seneca river at that point was a part, though a minor one, of the canal system of the state. The improvement, authorized in 1836 (L. 1836, ch. 303), was known as the Seneca River Towing Path. The first bridge was destroyed by fire in 1879, and was thereupon replaced by another in the same location. The…
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