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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Abner M. Harper, Inc., Respondent, v. The City of Newburgh et al., Appellants.
    
      Harper v. City of Newburgh, 166 App. Div. 903, affirmed.
    (Argued January 17, 1918;
    decided February 5, 1918.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 1, 1915, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term in an action to have canceled, rescinded and annulled plaintiff’s competitive bid upon a public street improvement in the city of Newburgh and to recover a certified check deposited as liquidated damages to insure execution of the contract. The question of law presented for determination was whether a court of equity had power to and should reheve a contractor from the effect of a conceded clerical error in arranging the figures in a bid submitted for the performance of work upon a public improvement, by rescinding the erroneous bid and preventing a forfeiture of the check submitted with the erroneous bid as a guaranty of performance.
    
      John B. Corwin, Corporation Counsel, for appellants.
    
      Henry Hirschberg for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Hogan, McLaughlin and Crane, JJ.