New York Court of Appeals

Economic Power and Construction Company, Respondent v. the City of Buffalo, Appellants

May 4, 1909195 N.Y. 286

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals held that the 1893 act incorporating the Economic Power and Construction Company was a private bill whose special franchise provisions in sections 5 and 6 were not expressed in the title and therefore void, reversing the lower court and dismissing the complaint.