Enches v. Glens Falls Gas & Electric Light Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Glens Falls Gas and Electric Light Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Warren on the 31st day of October, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury for $500, and also from an order' entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of November, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J.:
The plaintiff owns a lot, in the city of Glens Falls, upon the corner of Fourth and South streets. Along South street her lot extends about eighty-two feet. Upon that street were four large ekn trees between the sidewalk and the street. Back from South street on the plaintiff’s lot was a large oak tree about twenty-three feet from a gas main. In 1907 these trees, with others on plaintiff’s lot, were alive and healthy. In that year the defendant laid a gas main in South street in front of plaintiff’s premises. It was laid from three to eight feet from the curb line. In 1908 these…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Evans v. . Keystone Gas Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Fullerton v. Glens Falls Gas & Electric Light Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911