Hunt v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgement of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 23d day of January, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of February, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam : *
This action was brought to recover on a contract made between? the plaintiff and Long Island City (now merged into the city of Hew York), for repairing a bridge across Dutch Kills creek in said city. The complaint alleged the advertisement for jiroposals for said work,, .the execution of the contract by the city and its performance by the-plaintiff. The answer, after the admission of the incorporation of Long Island City and its subsequent merger into the present defendant, contained substantially a general denial of. the allegations of the complaint, and as an affirmative…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Brennan v. . MayorNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
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