Case Name: Trojan Railway Company, Respondent, v. Elias P. Mann, as Mayor of the City of Troy, et al., Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1909-06-18
Citations: 195 N.Y. 614
Docket Number: 
Parties: Trojan Railway Company, Respondent, v. Elias P. Mann, as Mayor of the City of Troy, et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 195
Pages: 614–615

Head Matter:
Trojan Railway Company, Respondent, v. Elias P. Mann, as Mayor of the City of Troy, et al., Appellants.
Trojan Bailway Go. v. Gity of Troy, 125 App. Div. 362, affirmed.
(Argued May 31, 1909;
decided June 18, 1909.)
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered April 1, 1908, which reversed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term sustaining demurrers to the complaint and an order denying a motion to continue a preliminary injunction, overruled such demurrers and granted such motion in an action to restrain the defendant mayor from executing and delivering to the defendant United Traction Company a certain franchise for the construction of a street railway.
The following question was certified: “ Does the complaint herein state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action ? ”
George JB. Wellington, Corporation Counsel, Lewis E. Carr and John E. MaoLean for appellants.
Thomas O' Connor for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs, and question certified answered in the affirmative, on authority • of the case of Village of Phœnix v. Gannon (195 N. Y. 471).
Concur: Cullen, Ch. J., Gray, Edward T. Bartlett, Haight, Vann, Werner and Hiscock, JJ.