Molloy v. . City of New Rochelle
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment entered January 30, 1908, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, which overruled plaintiff’s exceptions ordered to be heard in the first instance by the Appellate Division and directed a dismissal of the complaint.
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Appeal from a judgment entered January 30, 1908, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, which overruled plaintiff’s exceptions ordered to be heard in the first instance by the Appellate Division and directed a dismissal of the complaint. The defendant’s charter provides: “ Whenever any expenditures to be made or incurred by the common council or city board or any city officer in behalf of the city for work to be done, or materials or supplies tobe furnished, * * * shall exceed two hundred dollars, the city clerk shall advertise for and…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
Provisions similar to the one in the defendant’s charter from which we have quoted are common in municipal charters everywhere. Such provisions are intended to prevent favoritism. They result from an effort to prevent official action being influenced by improper motives. The same effort to prevent improper official action finds expression in the Village Law (section 332), the General City Law (section 3) and in many municipal charters, where it is provided that an officer therein shall not be directly or indirectly interested in a contract which he, or a board of which he is a member, is…
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- East River Gas-Light Co. v. . DonnellyNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
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