People ex rel. Pierce v. Sohmer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, William Sohmer, as Comptroller of the State of New York, and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 29th day of December, 1914, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus directed to the State Commissioner of Highways and the State Comptroller.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The relator in its petition alleges that it is a foreign corporation authorized to do business in the State of New York, and that on-the lJth day of June, 1911, it entered into a contract with the State of New York, through its Commissioner of Highways, for the construction of a public highway, known as the Albany-G-uilderland State highway. This highway extended over a distance of five and thirty-seven one-hundredths miles, and with the supplemental contracts provided for in the *439original contract the entire work was to cost the sum of $84,850.56. Under the terms of this contract…
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