Corcoran v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson on the 27th day of April, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury for fifty dollars rendered by direction of the coiirt, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal by the defendant, The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson on the 27th day of April, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury for fifty dollars rendered by direction of the coiirt, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. This action was brought to recover a penalty of fifty dollars under chapter 1027 of the Laws of 1895, being “ An act in relation to the issue of mileage…
1Opinion of the Court
Ward, J.:
The plaintiff resides at Watertown, N. Y., and is a member of the firm of .Hunting, Weeks & Corcoran, wholesale dealers in plumbers’supplies, and sold the goods of the concern on the road. On the 22d day of October, 1895, he purchased of the defendant in Syracuse a mileage book, paying twenty dollars for it. On the twenty-fourth of October" he was at Pulaski, in Oswego county, having liis mileage .book with him, which had about 900 miles upon which to travel, and was intending to take a train on defendant’s road to Syracuse. A train from Oswego on the same road had just started" away…
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