Blanshard v. City of New York

This is a taxpayer’s action to restrain the defendants from proceeding and operating under a bus franchise, alleged to have been granted illegally, fraudulently and in waste of the public funds and domain. It also seeks to annul and declare void the resolution of the board of estimate and apportionment of the city of New York granting the franchise to the defendant Brooklyn Bus Corporation, as well as the contract embodying the terms thereof, entered into between the defendants.

Although the complaint is silent on the subject, the parties have assumed, and for the purposes of this motion I…