R. G. Packard Co. v. Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park
District Court, S.D. New York
At Law. Action by the R. G. Packard Company against the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park. On demurrer by defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, District Judge.
The action is to recover damages for an alleged breach of a contract entered into between plaintiff and the defendant, Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park. The demurrer interposed by defendant raises the sole question as to whether this court has jurisdiction of the defendant in this action; it being-claimed that the defendant is, to all intents, the sovereign state of New York, and therefore cannot be sued in this court, by virtue of the provisions of the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
By chapter 170 of Laws of 1900, the state of…
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