De Matteis v. Village of Peekskill

The plaintiff attacks the validity of a consent to the operation of the omnibus line of the defendant Mayflower Transit Lines, Inc., given by the trustees of the defendant, the Village of Peekskill. It is the contention of the plaintiff that in giving the consent there was a failure to comply with the terms of an ordinance of the village which purports to impose certain conditions upon the power of the village trustees to act in such a matter. The ordinance in question provides that certain details of proposed operation should be stated in the application and that the application, itself,…