Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York January 15, 1900 (Kennedy v. County of Queens)

Goodrich, P. J.:

The main question arising on this appeal is whether an action can be maintained against a county on a contract into which it has entered, where by the terms of the contract the amount named in it is made a county charge.

In January, 1895, the Long Island City Electric Illuminating Company, in pursuance of sections 62 and 68 of the County Law (Laws of 1892, chap.