Court Opinion

ID: 8279796
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 03:46:06.62618+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:43:40.287734
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
The plaintiff brought this action and has recovered judgment- for the amount of three bills for work rendered and materials furnished upon .the order of the secretary of the armory board for replacing and repairing burned out and broken electric wires and switchboard, and for repairing a lantern in front of Armory A, and for repairs- to motor in the rifle range of the Twenty-Second Regiment Armory.
No power is conferred upon the secretary of the armory board to issue such -order or -incur such expenditures. On the contrary, expenditure of the municipal appropriation made to meet this nonmunicipal duty, devolved by statute. (Military Code [Laws 1898, p. 563, c. 212] § 134)' upon the city of New York, may be only by and under the direction of the commissioner of public buildings; who alone, in *885cases of an emergency, may cause repairs immediately required to be done without calling' for competition. • - • .
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event, with leave to appeal to the Appellate. Division.
SEABURY, J., dissents.