Leffingwell v. Scutt

This is a taxpayer’s action under section 51 of the General Municipal Law to restrain any further payment on an illegal contract and to recover into the village treasury money already paid thereon. The defendants are the village of Watkins, its trustees and treasurer, and Barrows, Reeves and Pollard, doing business under the firm name of Ellsworth, Barrows & Reeves.

The trustees of the village passed a resolution to employ the defendants Barrows, Reeves and Pollard, whom we shall call the “ firm,” to make “ a blanket assessment for the board of assessors ” and to pay them therefor two-tenths…