302 N.Y. 94 | NY | 1951
Section 51 of the General Municipal Law authorizes actions by taxpayers against illegal acts of £< all officers, agents, commissioners and other persons acting, or who have acted, for and on behalf of any county, town, village or municipal corporation in this state ”. Section 2 of the same statute defines a “ municipal corporation ” as including ££ only a county, town, city and village.”
A board of education is not a municipal corporation within the meaning of the above provisions (see Hamilton v. Baker,
The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.
Loughban, Oh. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Dye, Fuld and and Froessel, JJ., concur.
Judgment affirmed.