Coler v. Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, from an order of the Supreme Court,, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of April, 1909, denying .the defendant’s motion for á special jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
The action is for the publication by the defendant of an article charging the plaintiff, the borough president of the borough of Brooklyn, with being interested in street paving contracts in violation of section 1533 of the- charter (Laws of 1901, chap. 466). The complaint demands damages in the sum of $100,000.
The respondent raised on oral argument for the'first time the *301point that chapter 564 of the Laws of 1902 is unconstitutional for offending article 3, section 18, of the State Constitution, which provides that “ the Legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of…
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