Comstock v. City of Syracuse
New York Supreme Court
On motion by plaintiff to continue a temporary injunction in an action by George F. Comstock against the mayor and common council of the city of Syracuse, the canal board of the state, and others.
1Opinion of the CourtKennedy, J.
This action is brought to restrain the several defendants from executing the powers granted and from performing the several duties imposed by the provisions of an act entitled “An act to establish and maintain a water department in and for the city of Syracuse, ” upon the ground that some of its important parts are in conflict with the provisions of the state constitution. It is urged by the plaintiff that the eighteenth section of the act aforesaid is particularly subject to the objection suggested, in that it provides for the disposition by the canal board, in its discretion, of a portion…
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