Williams v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, John Williams and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the coiinty of New York on the 5th day of July, 1905, upon the verdict óf a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the CourtClarke, J.
The plaintiffs brought this action to recover damages for the refusal by the city to execute a contract claimed to have been duly awarded to them, said damages consisting of the profits they would have made if they had been allowed to perform.
By the provisions of section 692 of the revised charter of the city of New York (Laws of 1901, chap. 466) the care, management and control of Bellevue, Eordham, Harlem, Gouverneur and the Emergency hospitals were vested in a board of trustees known as the Board of Trustees of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, and to said board was transferred the powers…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Van Dolsen v. . Bd. of EducationNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Bradley v. Van WyokAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
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- People ex rel. Rangeley Construction Co. v. CraigAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1921
- People v. City of SchenectadyNew York Supreme Court · 1946
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