Crowley v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Patrick Crowley, from a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the Court of Claims on the 20th day of January 1904, dismissing the plaintiff’s claim.
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, J.:
The claimant seeks to recover damages for injuries to potatoes and corn planted on a field which was submerged by water that overflowed the banks of the Champlain canal. That part of the Champlain canal between Fort Edward and Fort Ann is known as the Twelve Mile level. A short distance east of the canal along this level are the railroad tracks of the Delaware and Hudson Company. Between the canal and the railroad tracks is a strip of low ¡and, and the field upon which claimant had planted said potatoes and corn is situated between the canal and the railroad tracks, about four and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Shannahan v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Edgett v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1959
- Gibson v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1946
- Williams v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1947