Amarnick v. State

Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims, entered May 3, 1972, which denied a motion by the State of New York to dismiss a claim based on breach of contract. On June 23, 1967 respondent, a distributor of mineral waters, entered an agreement with appellant which, among other things, provided that respondent would purchase fixed quantities of mineral waters from the Saratoga Springs Commission1 for a period of 10 years. Precipitated by reductions in expenditures by the 1971 Legislature, the Saratoga Bottling Plant, Saratoga, New York, where the mineral waters were bottled by State employees,…