Legal Opinion
American Dock Co. v. City of New York
New York Supreme Court
Decided August 2, 1940PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEder, J.
This is a taxpayers’ action brought under section 51 of the General Municipal Law. The defendants are the city, the members of the board of estimate, the commissioner of docks, the commissioner of purchase and New York Foreign Trade Zone Operators, Incorporated (hereafter styled Zone Operators), a domestic private corporation.
The plaintiffs by this action seek a judgment declaring invalid a contract entered into on May 11, 1938, between the city and Zone Operators whereby the latter undertook and assumed to operate a foreign trade zone theretofore operated by the city at Stapleton, on Staten…
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