Case Name: Village of Buchanan, Plaintiff, v. Town of Cortlandt, and Ellsworth E. Johnson, Supervisor, and Fred H. Bremner and Others, Councilmen, Comprising the Town Board of the Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, and as Such Acting as the Commissioners of the Verplanck Lighting District in Said Town, and Others, Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1942-03-09
Citations: 263 A.D. 1003
Docket Number: 
Parties: Village of Buchanan, Plaintiff, v. Town of Cortlandt, and Ellsworth E. Johnson, Supervisor, and Fred H. Bremner and Others, Councilmen, Comprising the Town Board of the Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, and as Such Acting as the Commissioners of the Verplanck Lighting District in Said Town, and Others, Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 263
Pages: 1003–1004

Head Matter:
Village of Buchanan, Plaintiff, v. Town of Cortlandt, and Ellsworth E. Johnson, Supervisor, and Fred H. Bremner and Others, Councilmen, Comprising the Town Board of the Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, and as Such Acting as the Commissioners of the Verplanck Lighting District in Said Town, and Others, Defendants.

Opinion:
Submission of a controversy on agreed statement of facts, pursuant to sections 546 and 547 of the Civil Practice Act. Judgment unanimously directed for plaintiff in the sum of $1,985.86, with interest thereon from the 1st day of January, 1941, without costs. We are of opinion that neither the village nor the territory annexed was responsible for the indebtedness incurred in behalf of the lighting district after December 13, 1934, the date when the first contract, by its terms, expired; Present — Hagarty, Johnston, Adel, Taylor and Close, JJ.