People ex rel. Dinsmore v. Croton Aqueduct Board
New York Supreme Court
Motion for an order to vacate a stay of proceedings pending an appeal, and to put the cause immediately on the general term calendar. This was an application by Samuel P. Dinsmore and John M. Wood for a mandamus, addressed to the Croton Aqueduct Board of the city of Hew York, requiring them to receive and consider a bid made by the relators for the contract for the work of constructing a new Croton Eeservoir in Central Park. The motion was denied at special term.
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Motion for an order to vacate a stay of proceedings pending an appeal, and to put the cause immediately on the general term calendar. This was an application by Samuel P. Dinsmore and John M. Wood for a mandamus, addressed to the Croton Aqueduct Board of the city of Hew York, requiring them to receive and consider a bid made by the relators for the contract for the work of constructing a new Croton Eeservoir in Central Park. The motion was denied at special term. See Ante, 316. The relators appealed to the general term, and obtained an order staying all proceedings of the defendants in the…
1Opinion of the CourtRoosevelt, J.
—The Croton Board having advertised for contracts for building a new reservoir, various proposals were sent in, and among them one from Dinsmore & Wood, and one from Fairchild & Co. After full consideration, the board concluded to award the contract to the latter firm, prior to which the former had sued out a writ of mandamus. The case was heard before Judge Peabody, who confirmed the decision of the Aqueduct Board, refusing to entertain Dinsmore & Wood’s bid. From this decision Dinsmore & Wood appealed to the general term, and obtained a stay of proceedings till the final hearing should be…
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