Drummond v. Kern

This is a proceeding under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act to compel the defendants to do all things necessary to accomplish the payment by the city of New York of a certain bill rendered by the petitioners, a firm of legal photographers. The bill in question was incurred by the corporation counsel of the city of New York for photographs ordered by him from the petitioners for use as evidence in the trial of actions and proceedings to which the city was a party.

The facts are not in dispute. The corporation counsel for the fifty years during which he has used photographic exhibits as…