City of New York v. Jamaica Water Supply Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The City of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Queens County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 1st day of September, 1917, denying its application for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Stapleton, J.:
Notwithstanding the form of the title, the appeal is from a final order in a special proceeding denying an application made by the city of New York for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
*50The defendant became a corporation, pursuant to the provisions of section 80 of the Transportation Corporations Law, for the purpose of supplying water to the authorities and inhabitants of the former town of Jamaica, now incorporated in the city of New York as the fourth ward of the borough, of Queens. The commissioner of water supply, gas and electricity of the city of New York made and served a…
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