Mayor of New York v. Tenth National Bank
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made May 8, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made May 8, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury. The complaint alleges that the defendant was duly designated as one of the depositories of the moneys of the city and county of New York, and that between the 1st day of December, 1871, and the 31st day of May, 1873, large sums of such moneys were deposited with it upon which it agreed to allow interest at the rate of four per cent upon daily…
1Opinion of the Court
Earl, J
The learned and exhaustive argument by the counsel for the city has failed to convince us that the judgment appealed from is erroneous.
The construction of the New York court-house seems to have been inaugurated by an appropriation, in the act chapter 509 of the Laws of 1860, of $100,000 “for the purpose of erecting suitable court rooms for the accommodation of the several courts of the county.” By the act chapter. 161 of the Laws,of 1861, the board of supervisors of the county of New York was authorized and empowered to acquire and take for the purposes of building a court-house…
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