Earing v. Lansingh
New York Supreme Court
Error from the Rensselaer common pleas. This cause was tried in the Renssalaer common pleas on appeal from a justice’s judgment. Lansingh sued Earing before the justice and recovered a penalty of five dollars for not turning out to the right of the centre of a road on which they were travelling in their waggons, in opposite directions.
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Error from the Rensselaer common pleas. This cause was tried in the Renssalaer common pleas on appeal from a justice’s judgment. Lansingh sued Earing before the justice and recovered a penalty of five dollars for not turning out to the right of the centre of a road on which they were travelling in their waggons, in opposite directions. They were travelling in the town of Greenbush, on the Rensselaer and Columbia turnpike road; Lansingh was proceeding to, and Earing coming from the village of Greenbush; at the place where they met, the worked part of the road is not over 20 feet wide ; on…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sutherland, J.
The charge of the court below was correct. The 6th section of theact concerning turnpike roads, 2 R. L. 227, and also the 41st section of the act to regulate highways, 2 R. L. 283, provide that in all cases of persons meeting each other on any turnpike road or public *187highway in this state, travelling with carriages, sleighs, waggons or carts, the persons so meeting shall seasonably lam, drive and convey their carriages, «fee. to the right of ike centre of the road, so as to enable carriages to pass, each other without interference or interruption, under a penalty of…
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