People ex rel. Beck v. Coler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from special term. Application for mandamus by the people, on the relation of Louis-Beck, against Bird S. Coler, comptroller of the city of New York, and another. From an order granting a peremptory writ, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtCullen, J.
On December 10, 1897, at a meeting of the inhabitants of school district No. 1 of the towns of Castleton and Middle-town, Richmond county, a resolution was passed authorizing the trustees of the school district to purchase a new site, and°build a new *640school house thereon, and for that purpose to raise the sum of $80,-000 by tax upon the district. Thereafter the trustees of the school district entered into a contract with the relator for the construction of the school building for the sum of $79,500; payments to be made as the work progressed, on the certificate of the engineer and the…
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