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Dailey v. City of New York

157 N.Y.S. 1121 Court N.Y. App. Div. Decision date 1916-02-18 English

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John D. DAILEY et al., Respondents, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Appellants.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department,
February 18, 1916.)

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Appeal from Special Term, New York County. See, also, 86 Misc. Rep. 86 , 149 N. Y. Supp. 109 ; 170 App. Div. 267 , 156 N. Y. Supp. 124 .

The judgment should be modified, so as to provide as follows: Ordered, adjudged and decreed that the defendant the city of New York, and the defendant John T. Fetherston, commissioner of street cleaning, and each of them, and their and each of their attorneys, agents, servants and employes, be and they are hereby enjoined and restrained during the continuance and life of the contract of the plaintiffs with the city of New York of August 12, 1913, for the final disposition by the plaintiffs of the ashes, street sweepings and rubbish that may be collected by the defendant the city of New York, in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, from delivering, dumping or depositing upon the scows or other transporting conveyances of the plaintiffs, material other than “ashes, street sweepings and rubbish,” as those words are specifically defined in the said contract between the plaintiffs and the city of New York, which is collected from the department stores, factories, business establishments and buildings, no_ portions of which are used as dwellings or residences by others than caretakers, janitors or watchmen in the employ of those conducting the business, in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, either by carts of the defendant or by the owners of private vehicles under special permits, issued by the defendant the city of New York, and the defendant John T. Fetherston, its commissioner of street cleaning; and it is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the complaint herein, so far as it demands injunctive relief against the defendants under subdivisions B, O and D in

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the prayer thereof, he and'the same is hereby dismissed, without prejudice to an action at law for relief with respect .to the same subject matter. The operation of the injunction hereby granted shall be stayed until 20 days after the tiling of the decision and judgment herein and the service of copies of the same upon the defendants with notice of entry. And, as so modified, the judgment should be affirmed, without Costs.

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