Schieffelin v. Craig
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motion to dismiss an appeal by the plaintiff, William Jay Schieffelin, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 1st day of March, 1918, denying his motion for an injunction pendente lite.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
The action is brought by a taxpayer to restrain the defendants from including in the sum to be raised by taxation for the year 1918, $2,061,364.06, or any other amount as the city’s share in the cost of the opening and extending of the Queens boulevard in the borough of Queens.
Briefly stated, plaintiff charges that it would be an illegal official act for the city to pay its portion of the expenses for the acquisition of lands for Queens boulevard out of *517money to be raised by taxation for the year 1918, and that the proper method is to discharge that indebtedness out of money to be…
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