In re Vacheron
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Eugene F. Vacheron, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special'Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 15th day .of November, 1899, denying his motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the board of supervisors of Queens county to audit and allow certain of his bills for sprinkling county roads in Queens county during the months of May, June and July, 1899.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
On July 6, 1897, the applicant entered into a written contract with the board of supervisors of the county of Queens whereby the board employed him to sprinkle certain county roads which now are partly in the new county of Nassau and partly in the present county of Queens between the first day of May and the first day of November, in each year, for the period of ten years, beginning August 1,1897, at a stipulated sum of money monthly per mile of roads sprinkled. The applicant began the performance of the contract in August, 1897, and continued work until November of that year,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mount Pleasant v. BeckwithSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
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- Dos Passos v. City of New YorkAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1904