128 N.Y.S. 638 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1911
The action of the defendant in rejecting relators’ bills should be reversed and the bills allowed and ordered paid, with interest from December 23, 1909, with costs. The writ was granted February 5, 1910, on a petition by the relators, made that day. At an annual session of the board, December 10,1907, a public hearing was had as to the necessity of a hospital building in connection with the almshouse. December 24, 1907, a resolution was passed by the board that the chairman appoint a committee of five, the chairman being one, to inquire as to the necessity of such a hospital, to confer with the State Board of Charities and request plans and specifications, and to obtain estimates of the cost of construction, to report at the next session of the board with their opinion. A committee was appointed under the resolution consisting of the chairman, Lorin, and McCreary, Clark, Swancott and Hyde, and was designated the hospital committee. The board adjourned without day. The committee organized, employedaclerkand entered upon
All concurred.
Action of the defendant in rejecting the relators’ bills reversed and the bills allowed, to be paid with interest from December 23, 1909, with fifty dollars costs and disbursements.
See Laws of 1908, cliap. 418, § 1, as amd. by Laws of 1909, chap. 846. [Rep.