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

George J. Adams et al., Appellants, v. Clarence D. Van Zandt, Individually and as Mayor of the City of Rochester, et al., Respondents.
    
      Rochester (city of) — municipal corporations — validity of contract for laying patented pavement in city street.
    
    
      Adams v. Van Zandt, 219 App. Div. 761, affirmed.
    (Argued November 29, 1927;
    decided December 13, 1927.)
    Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered January 10, 1927, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court on trial at an Equity Term. The action was to have declared illegal the letting of a contract for the laying of a patented pavement in a street of the city of Rochester on the ground of lack of competition in bidding on the contract.
    
      Eugene Raines for appellants.
    
      Clarence M. Platt, Corporation Counsel (George B. Draper of counsel), for the mayor et al., respondents.
    
      John F. Kinney for William Bailey Corporation, respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.