(DOWNLOAD) "Benz v. New York State Thruway Authority" by Supreme Court of the United States " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Benz v. New York State Thruway Authority
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 19, 1962
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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We granted certiorari in this case, 368 U.S. 886, to decide whether the State of New York could, consistently with the Fourteenth Amendment, assert sovereign immunity in a suit brought by petitioner to reform on grounds of mutual mistake, or to rescind for fraud in the inducement, an agreement fixing compensation for land taken under the power of eminent domain. Contrary to our initial impression of the case on the basis of the petition for certiorari, plenary consideration has satisfied us that the New York Court of Appeals decided no more than that this suit could not be maintained in the Supreme Court of the State of New York because exclusive jurisdiction over litigation of this character had been vested in the New York Court of Claims. The case then involves only a matter relating to ""the distribution of jurisdiction in the state courts,"" and presents no substantial federal question. E. g., Honeyman v. Hanan, 302 U.S. 375.