Lantry v. Mayor of New York

The contract here, like the one in Phelan v. Mayor, 119 N. Y. 86, provides that the time during which the work of completion may be delayed by acts of the city shall be determined by the commissioner of public works. Such provision proved fatal to the plaintiff in that case, but is not controlling here, for the contract sued on contains other prolusions more germane to this controversy, to-wit: (1.) “ In case said building shall not be completed within five hundred working days as aforesaid, the architect in charge of said building shall certify, in writing, what portion of said excess of…