Meyers v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Julius Meyers, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of December, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
This is a taxpayer’s action brought against the commissioners of the new East River bridge in the city of New York and certain officials of that city. The complaint set up the act of the Legislature creating the commission and prescribing the duties of the commissioners. They were, among other things, to prepare a plan for the bridge, which is to be a permanent suspension bridge, and, after adopting such a plan as seemed to them best, they were to construct the bridge and for that purpose were authorized to enter into contracts. The act contains no limitation upon their authority…
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