Knowles v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The City of New York and others, 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- 15th day of January, 1902, denying, the said defendants- motion to change the place of trial'of the action from the county of Kings to the county of New.York.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The plaintiff brings a taxpayer’s action to enjoin- the city of New York, the mayor and the comptroller of the city and the commissioners of the New East River bridge from paying out, and the Pennsylvania Steel Company from receiving, moneys on account of work to be done under two contracts for constructing approaches on the Manhattan and on the Brooklyn sides of a new bridge over the East river, and to declare the contract void, to compel the steel company to repay to the city the amounts which it has received, and to direct that the commissioners readvertise and relet the…
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- People Ex Rel. Rodgers v. . ColerNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- Meyers v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
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