Shaddock v. Schwartz

By a judgment in a former action the city of Buffalo, its officers and agents, were enjoined from making any other or further payments to the present petitioner upon a certain contract for work at the Perrysburg Tuberculosis Hospital of the city of Buffalo which contract was determined to be illegal. (Fraser v. City of Buffalo, 215 App. Div. 861; affd., 243 N. Y. 554.) The petitioner thereafter filed with the council of the city of Buffalo a petition setting forth that a large amount of work had been done by bim under this contract in good faith and in reliance upon its validity, and that the…