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New York Railroad Law Section 70 - Rights And Liabilities As Common Carriers.

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    § 70.  Rights  and  liabilities  as  common  carriers. Every railroad
  corporation doing business in this state shall be a common carrier.  Any
  one  of  two  or more corporations owning or operating connecting roads,
  within this state, or partly within and partly without the state,  shall
  be  liable  as a common carrier, for the transportation of passengers or
  delivery of freight received by it to be transported by it to any  place
  on  the  line of a connecting road; and if it shall become liable to pay
  any sum by reason of neglect or misconduct of any other  corporation  it
  may  collect  the  same of the corporation by reason of whose neglect or
  misconduct it became liable.

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