Kennedy v. County of Queens
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The County of Queens, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 5th' day of July, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of July, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The main question arising on this appeal is whether an action can be maintained against a county on a contract into which it has entered, where by the terms of the contract the amount named in it is made a county charge.
In January, 1895, the Long Island City Electric Illuminating Company, in pursuance of sections 62 and 68 of the County Law (Laws of 1892, chap. 686), made a contract with the county of Queens and the county of Kings, by which the company agreed' to furnish electric power to operate a motor to be placed by such counties on a bridge over Newtown creek for a term…
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