Gleason v. Peerless Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Peerless Manufacturing Company,, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs,, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 8th day of August, 1894, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Queens County Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This is a taxpayer’s action, brought to restrain the payment by Long Island City to the Peerless Manufacturing Company of New York of the purchase price of some rubber hose. Proposals for furnishing such hose were advertised for, in answer to which the Peerless Company made its bid. The bid was not the lowest, but the common council, by resolution, awarded the contract to the Peerless Company and directed the mayor and commissioner of public works to execute it. This resolution the mayor vetoed. It was returned to the common council with the mayor’s objections on March 6, 1888, and…
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