Legal Opinion

Potter v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 15, 1901PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal, by the plaintiff, Alexander Potter, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, ■entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 10th day of May, 1900, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial before the court without a jury at the Kings County Trial Term, as dismissed the second cause of action alleged in the complaint.

1Opinion of the Court

Hirschberg, J.:

The complaint contains three causes of action. The plaintiff recovered on the first; the second was dismissed, and the third was withdrawn upon the trial.

The first and second causes of actions are based on a written agreement made April 23, 1895, between the plaintiff and the board of .sewer commissioners of the village of Far Rockaway, Mew York, whereby the plaintiff claims to have been employed as engineer to prepare specifications and supervise the construction of a system of «ewers for that village, for the sum of ten dollars per day. The first ■cause of action is for…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Martin v. New York Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1895

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Outerbridge v. CampbellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
  2. Mack v. Mayor of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1902
  3. Mason v. New York Produce ExchangeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
  4. Hotchkiss v. GodkinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
  5. Outerbridge v. CampbellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903

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