Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 31, 1900 (Parsons v. Van Wyck)

O’BRIEN, J.

The action was brought by a taxpayer to restrain an alleged unlawful expenditure of city money by the defendants-as members of the “Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Memorial Arch Commission of the City of New York,” provided for by chapter 522 of the Laws of 1893, in erecting a proposed memorial monument in Riverside Park near Eighty-Ninth street.