CHRIST GATZONIS ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, INC. v. NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AUTHORITY


297 A.D.2d 272 (2002)

745 N.Y.S.2d 914

CHRIST GATZONIS ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, INC., Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AUTHORITY, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided August 5, 2002.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

It is well established that contracts procured through fraudulent and collusive bidding are void as against public policy, and where work is done pursuant to such illegal municipal contracts, no recovery may be had by the vendor, either on the contract or in quantum meruit, and the municipality can recover from the vendor all amounts paid under such contracts (see S.T. Grand, Inc. v City of New York,

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