Court Opinion

ID: 3597751
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:44:41.465988+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:17:56.042417
License: Public Domain

I think enough is alleged by the plaintiff to impeach the acts of the common council of the city of Buffalo for fraud in the granting of the consent to the traction company.
It would be disastrous to hold that, where a municipal body is charged, as it is here, with fraudulent use of power and collusion, and a consequent waste of municipal property, no case was presented for judicial inquiry.
I think there should be a trial, as to this question, and an opportunity thus afforded for the plaintiff to sustain his allegations by such evidence as he may have.
O'BRIEN and HAIGHT, JJ., concur generally with PARKER, Ch. J., for affirmance; MARTIN, J., concurs in result; BARTLETT and VANN, JJ., concur with GRAY, J., for reversal.
Order affirmed. *Page 399