National Contracting Co. v. Hudson River Water Power Co.

The action is brought by the plaintiff to- recover the sum of $615,548.32 as damages for breach of a contract entered into between the plaintiff and the defendant for the building of a masonry dam across the Hudson river in the townships of Moreau and Luzerne, in the counties of Saratoga and Warren, Few York, at a point about five miles down the river from the dam at Palmer’s Falls. The breaches alleged on the part of the defendant are the failure to make payments as provided by the terms of the contract, and in preventing the building'of a masonry dam, as required by the terms of the…