N.Y. Railroad Law § 70: Rights and liabilities as common carriers

§ 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.