153 N.Y.S. 808 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1915
This is an appeal from an order granting a motion for an alternative writ of mandamus directed to the president of the borough of Richmond, requiring him to rescind and withdraw the rejection of bids opened December 22, 1914, for shoeing the horses of stable A of the street cleaning bureau in that borough for the year 1915, and accept the bid of the relator. The charter of the city of New York, section 419, provides that “ if a borough president or the head of a department shall not deem it for the interest of the city to reject all bids, he shall, without the consent or approval of any other department or officer of the city government, award the contract to the lowest bidder.”
Jenks, P. J., Garr, Stapleton and Putnam, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.
See Laws of 1901, chap. 466, § 419, as amd. by Laws of 1910, chap. 554. —[Rep.