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Scope and Content Note

This series consists of four volumes of stenographer's minutes documenting the case of Jackson and Perkins v. the State of New York, which was tried before the Court of Claims in Rochester and Syracuse during the months of October and November 1917. The case evolved from property damage claims that the company filed against the state in the wake of repeated flooding of the Clyde River. These claims alleged that the flooding was directly linked to excavation undertaken by the state during construction of the Barge Canal. Totaling over 1700 typed pages, the set represents a verbatim transcript of the testimony and examination of witnesses both for the claimant and the state. Final disposition of the case is not documented in the records.