95 N.Y.S. 696 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1905
The evident -purpose and intention of the charter of the city of Elmira is to restrict expenditures by the comm'on council for the ordinary expenses of the city to $175,000 for the current year. Such.restriction upon the expenditures is exclusive of interest and principal falling due. within' the current year on-bonds issued by the city, and of all other liabilities of the city for which other provision is not made (Charter [Laws of 1894, chap. 615], § 31, subd. i, as amd. by Laws of 1904, chap. 367), of an amount not exceeding $25,000 for pavements' and sidewalks.(Id. § 148, as amd. by Laws of 1896, chap. 693), of an amount necessary for the maintenance of the public schools, and of an amount for library purposes (Id. § 223). (See, also, Laws of 1859, chap. 113, as amd.) The common council is limited in its expenditures to the several amounts fixed and
If the common council can make the amount to be paid under any agreement that it may authorize a liability against the city, so that it can be placed in the amount to be raised by tax under said subdivision i .of said section 31, it necessarily follows that the provisions of the charter requiring that all questions as to extraor
The order should be reversed, with ten dollars costs .and disburse* ments, and, the parties to the action assenting thereto, without, prejudice to the right of the city tv review this decision or hereafter to contend that said contracts are in all respects legal; the preliminary
- All concurred ; Houghton, J., not voting, not being a member of this court at the time this decision was handed down.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and, the parties to the action assenting thereto, without prejudice to the right of the city to review this decision or hereafter to contend that said contracts are in all respects legal; the preliminary injunction, as modified, is further modified so as to enjoin only the making of payments under said contracts or either of them and the doing of any act in further performance thereof»'