People ex rel. Rangeley Construction Co. v. Craig
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Charles L. Craig and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of March, 1921, granting relator’s application for a writ of peremptory mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
Ón November 13,1918, the Rangeley Construction Company, Inc., the relator, and the College of the City of New York entered into a written agreement for the construction of a three-story temporary barracks. This contract provided that the relator was to receive the actual net cost of the work, plus seven per cent of said cost, which total would not exceed the sum of $87,472.50. Relator commenced work thereunder. This work was undertaken by the City College during the World War, at the request of the War Department of the United States in order to have a temporary barracks to house…
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