People ex rel. Navano v. Van Nort
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order made at a Special Term, denying a motion for a mandamus. The relator had, by the order and direction of the respondent as commissioner of public works, in the city of New York, furnished a quantity of water meters, for tke use of the city, to be placed in stores, hotels and other places, where water was furnished for business consumption.
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APPEAL from an order made at a Special Term, denying a motion for a mandamus. The relator had, by the order and direction of the respondent as commissioner of public works, in the city of New York, furnished a quantity of water meters, for tke use of the city, to be placed in stores, hotels and other places, where water was furnished for business consumption. The amount of the bill for such meters being over $1,000, the respondent insisted that the case was governed by the provisions of the city charter, of 1870, which requires that ad contracts for supplies, &c., involving more than $1,000,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Brady, J.
The commissioner of public works was authorized, in his discretion, to cause water meters of approved pattern and suitable for the purpose, *199to be designated by him, to be placed in all stores, workshops, hotels, manufactories and public edifices, at wharves, ferry-houses, stables, and in all places in which water was furnished for business consumption, by the department of public works, so that all water furnished therein or thereat might be measured and known by such department, and for the purpose of ascertaining the ratable proportion which consumers of water should…
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