People v. . Adirondack Railway Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, made March 8, 1899, reversing a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon the decision of the court at Special Term, and granting a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. Edward Winslow Paige and G. D. B. Hasbrouck for appellant.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, made March 8, 1899, reversing a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon the decision of the court at Special Term, and granting a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. Edward Winslow Paige and G. D. B. Hasbrouck for appellant. The acceptance by the forest preserve board of the offer of McEchron and others, followed by the entry of the state upon the lands, the survey, and the beginning and continuing of the building of the…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
In 1882 the Adirondack Railway Company was incorporated for the term of one thousand years to construct and operate a railroad from Saratoga Springs to the River St. Lawrence, near the city of Ogdensburg. It was a reorganization of an older corporation known as the Adirondack Company, which was organized in 1863, under the provisions of chapter 236 of the laws of that year. Prior to the foreclosure which resulted in the reorganization, the Adirondack Company had constructed a railroad from Saratoga .Springs to "North Creek, in the county of Warren, and this railroad, together with the right…
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