Baldwin & Jaycox v. Mayor
New York Supreme Court
MOTION by the comptroller of the city of New York to vacate a judgment rendered in this action, in June, 1863, against the defendants for over $70,000 damages, for their failure to award to the plaintiffs the contract for building the new reservoir gate-houses, for which contract they claimed to be the lowest bidders.
1Opinion of the CourtClerke, J.
It is scarcely necessary to reiterate, at any length, what this court, at general term in this district, took occasion emphatically to assert, (Lowber v. The Mayor, &c. 5 Abb. 487,) that it belongs to the inherent essential powers of this court to exercise so efficient a control over every proceeding in an action as to effectually protect every person actually interested in the result, from injustice and fraud, and that it will not allow itself to be made the instrument of wrong, no less on account of its detestation of every thing conducive to wrong than on account of that regard which it…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Town of Guilford v. CornellNew York Supreme Court · 1854
- People ex rel. McSpedon v. HawsNew York Supreme Court · 1861
- Parker v. City of WilliamsburghNew York Supreme Court · 1856
3Cited by10 opinions
- Matter of Hogan v. N.Y. Supreme CourtNew York Court of Appeals · 1946
- John Hoagland v. City of SacramentoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1877
- Baldwin & Jaycox v. Mayor of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1865
- Greene v. County of NiagaraAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
- Rudolph v. City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1947
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