Tompkins v. Pallas
New York Supreme Court
Taxpayers action for an injunction.
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
This is a taxpayer’s action to restrain the use for advertising purposes of a fence surrounding a portion of one of the public parks in the city of New York. The park in question is known as Bryant Park, and occupies the area *310bounded by Fortieth and Forty-second streets, Fifth and. Sixth avenues. On its easterly half there is in process of erection a large building for the New York Public Library. This site was previously occupied by a masonry reservoir, and the fence in question was erected by the contractor to whom was intrusted the work of removing the old reservoir and building the…
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