New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, 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 7th day of December, 1897, dismissing the claim of the plaintiff to recover damages for an. appropriation of lands and for injuries to a railroad embankment. •
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
In April, 1894, the appellant, as lessee of the Mohawk and Malone Railway Company, operated a railroad which crossed Black river some two or three miles southeasterly of the village of Forestport. At the crossing the river was the boundary between the towns of Remsen and Forestport in the county of Oneida. The valley of the river at this point in the town of Remsen was about one thousand feet wide, and the railroad track was carried across upon an embankment from thirty-five to forty-eight feet in height. The embankment was finished in December, 1891, and thereafter it was used for…
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