Fox v. Union Turnpike Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Union Turnpike Company,' from, a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 20th day of December, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,400, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of January, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made "upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, J.:
The defendant is a domestic corporation and the owner of a turnpike road which includes the eastern approach to the Verplanck bridge in the town of Westerlo, Albany county. The bridge is a single span iron structure, and the eastern approach is a fill between bluestone retaining walls commencing at the level of the highway eighty-eight and nine-tenths feet from the bridge and extending to the bridge where it is. a little over ten feet above the adjoining lands. The approach is twenty-five feet wide at its commencement and eighteen and seven-tenths feet wide at the bridge, and at the…
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