Elsey v. Adirondack & St. Lawrence Railroad

The action is for an injunction and for damages. Plaintiff owns a farm consisting of 196 acres in the town of DeKalh, 'St. Lawrence county, N. ¥., upon which he maintains about forty-five head of cattle and four or five horses. He bought it March 16, 1905. The defendant company was incorporated in 1906. Its railroad was built by a predecessor a few years before plaintiff bought, but was not under operation at that time. The road runs through the farm for a distance of twelve hundred feet on an embankment, from twelve to fourteen feet high, made of rock, sand and pyrites tailings. A ditch is…