Forte v. City of Albany

The actions in which these appeals are taken were brought, two by the administrators of deceased occupants and two by surviving occupants of an automobile which, on Becember 29,1934, struck a steel pillar which supported the defendant railroad’s old overhead bridge at the Central avenue underpass in the westerly part of the city of Albany. The actions were brought against the city of Albany, the New York Central Railroad Company, William M. Ballard, Inc., which had contracted with the railroad company to perform work in connection with building a new railway bridge easterly from and adjacent…