Gordon v. Strong
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, William Gordon, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 22d day of June, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term dismissing the complaint upon the merits, and also from the findings and decision of the court entered in said clark’s office on the lJth day of June, 1896. The action was a taxpayer’s suit brought…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, William Gordon, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 22d day of June, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term dismissing the complaint upon the merits, and also from the findings and decision of the court entered in said clark’s office on the lJth day of June, 1896. The action was a taxpayer’s suit brought to restrain the purchase by the commissioners of the East River bridge of the right of the East River Bridge Company to…
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The subject of this appeal was under consideration by this court in April, 1896, upon an appeal by the defendants from an order of the Special Term enjoining the defendants from carrying into effect the contract set out in the complaint.
The law applicable to the case was carefully and fully stated in the opinion of the learned Presiding Justice Brown, and we find no occasion to review that decision. (Gordon v. Strong, 3 App. Div. 395.)
Nor do any new facts appear in the testimony offered at the trial *520of the action which differentiate the present appeal from the former, where…
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- Gordon v. StrongAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
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