Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Co. v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 15, 1914, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion to continue pendente lite a preliminary injunction restraining defendants from enforcing the provisions of the public hack ordinance of the city of New York.
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Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 15, 1914, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion to continue pendente lite a preliminary injunction restraining defendants from enforcing the provisions of the public hack ordinance of the city of New York. The order granting permission to appeal certifies the following questions of law to this court: “I. May public hack stands, as defined in the public hack ordinance, adopted by the board of aldermen of the city of New York, and approved by…
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, Ch. J.
This is an action to procure an adjudication that the public hack ordinance approved by the mayor of the city of New York on June 2nd, 1913, is unconstitutional and void, and to enjoin the defendants from enforcing the provisions of such ordinance and from interfering with the rights and privileges previously granted to the plaintiff under prior ordinances of the city of New York relating to the same subject-matter.
In cases of this character, where the appeal is from an interlocutory order by virtue of an allowance by the Appellate Division, the appeal brings up for…
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