N.Y. Railroad Law § 70

§ 70. Rights and liabilities as common carriers. Every railroad\ncorporation doing business in this state shall be a common carrier. Any\none of two or more corporations owning or operating connecting roads,\nwithin this state, or partly within and partly without the state, shall\nbe liable as a common carrier, for the transportation of passengers or\ndelivery of freight received by it to be transported by it to any place\non the line of a connecting road; and if it shall become liable to pay\nany sum by reason of neglect or misconduct of any other corporation it\nmay collect the same of the corporation by reason of whose neglect or\nmisconduct it became liable.\n