Parsons v. Van Wyck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
-Appeal from special term, New York county. Action by Mary L. Parsons against RobertA. .Van Wyck and others. Prom an order denying a motion to continue an injunction pendente lite, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
The action was brought by a taxpayer to restrain an alleged unlawful expenditure of city money by the defendants-as members of the “Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Memorial Arch Commission of the City of New York,” provided for by chapter 522 of the Laws of 1893, in erecting a proposed memorial monument in Riverside Park near Eighty-Ninth street. A temporary injunction was obtained, but a motion to continue it pendente lite was denied, and from the order entered thereon this appeal is taken.
The act in question, under which the defendants are proceeding (chapter 522, Laws 1893), is as follows:
“An act…
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