Jamaica Water Supply Co. v. City of New York

Plaintiff brought this action for a judgment declaring a certain agreement between the defendant City of New York and the defendant Rochdale Village, Inc., to be unconstitutional, illegal and void. By the terms of said agreement, the defendant city would furnish water to the defendant *867Rochdale. Plaintiff also asks that the defendants he restrained from taking any action to implement or perform said agreement. The theory of plaintiff’s action is that the aforesaid agreement and the acts contemplated thereunder would constitute a breach of plaintiff’s franchise.

Defendants by two separate…