Greene v. Mayor
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon an order dismissing plaintiffs complaint at Circuit. (Reported below, 1 Hun, 29.) This action was brought to recover the amount alleged to be due plaintiff upon two contracts executed by him and the defendant, by the commissioner of public works.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon an order dismissing plaintiffs complaint at Circuit. (Reported below, 1 Hun, 29.) This action was brought to recover the amount alleged to be due plaintiff upon two contracts executed by him and the defendant, by the commissioner of public works. The contracts were executed July 1st, 1872, for work in carrying out the improvements authorized by the act providing for the extension of the distribution of the Croton water, etc. (Chap. 213, Laws…
1Opinion of the CourtRapallo, J.
By an act of the legislature passed March 29, 1871 (chap. 213 of Laws of 1871) the defendants, by the commissioner of public works, were authorized to expend in laying pipes to extend the distribution of Croton water through the city of Mew York, etc., a sum not exceeding $1,500,000, and the comptroller was directed to borrow upon the bonds of the defendants such amounts as, in the judgment of the commissioner of public works, might be necessary to execute such work, not exceeding the sum before mentioned.
In pursuance of this act the defendants, by the commissioner of public works, entered…
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