Hendrickson v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from special term, Queens county. Action by Peter G. Hendrickson against the Jamaica Electric Light Company (the city of New York impleaded). There was a judgment dismissing the complaint (52 N. Y. Rupp. 790), and plaintiff and the city of New York appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWillard Bartlett, J.
This is a taxpayer’s action, brought to annul a contract alleged to have been entered into on the 17th day of December, 1897, between the town of Jamaica and the Jamaica Electric Light Company, for furnishing electric lights to a designated' lighting district in that town for a period of 10 years from the date of the contract. The agreement was attacked on two grounds: (1) That the town board had not caused notice of the filing of the petition for lighting to be published, as required by the statute (Laws 1896, c. 309, §§ 2, 3); and (2) that, inasmuch as nothing in the way of lighting the…
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