Norris v. Wurster
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal'by the defendants, Martin F. Conly and others, constituting the board of aldermen of the city of Brooklyn, and the East River and Atlantic Ocean Railroad Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County.
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Appeal'by the defendants, Martin F. Conly and others, constituting the board of aldermen of the city of Brooklyn, and the East River and Atlantic Ocean Railroad Company, 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 Kings on the 16th day of December, 1897, continuing an injunction which restrained the defendant Wurster, as mayor of the city of Brooklyn, and the individual defendants, as aldermen of the city of Brooklyn, from granting consent to the East River and Atlantic Ocean Railroad Company and the Nassau…
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
This is a taxpayer’s action instituted to restrain the defendant Wurster, as mayor of the city of .Brooklyn, from approving, and twenty-eight other defendants, constituting the board of aldermen of the said city, from passing over the mayor’s veto, if he should exercise that power, two certain resolutions already passed by such board, granting to the other defendants, the East River and Atlantic Ocean Railroad Company and the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, the consent of the common council to the construction, use and operation of a railroad in certain streets of the city…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Ziegler v. . ChapinNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Adamson v. Nassau Electric RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1895
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- Blaschko v. WursterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Holton v. WursterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Norris v. WursterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
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