State v. Cote

The pending actions arise out of transactions with respect to construction work done or agreed to be done for the State under various contracts made by the State Comptroller. In its equity action, the State has alleged these contracts to be invalid because entered into without authority and in violation of statute. The relief sought by the bill is a decree ordering that the contracts “be set aside and rescinded as invalid,” an accounting for all moneys paid to and expended by the defendants, determination of the reasonable value of “all labor and materials expended,” and restitution of all…