New York & Rosendale Cement Co. v. Keator
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, the New York and Eosendale Cement Company, suing on behalf of itself and others, taxpayers of the village of Eosendale, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 12th day of November, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Ulster Special Term, and also from an order, entered in said clerk’s office on the. 12th day of November, 1900,…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, the New York and Eosendale Cement Company, suing on behalf of itself and others, taxpayers of the village of Eosendale, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 12th day of November, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Ulster Special Term, and also from an order, entered in said clerk’s office on the. 12th day of November, 1900, granting to certain defendants an extra allowance of costs.
1Opinion of the Court
Edwards, J.:
On March 5, 1900, at a meeting of the board of trustees of the-incorporated village of Eosendale, a resolution was passed directing the submission, at the annual election to be held on March twentieth, of a proposition to purchase the water works system of the Eosendale Water Works Company, a domestic corporation which had' been supplying the village with water under a contract which contained an option for the purchase by the village of the company’s system, for the sum of $40,000. Notice of the time and place of holding the election and setting forth the-proposition to be voted…
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