Edwards v. Ford
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, J. S. Glen Edwards, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Montgomery on the 24th day of May, 1897, upon the report of a referee.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, J. S. Glen Edwards, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Montgomery on the 24th day of May, 1897, upon the report of a referee. This is a taxpayer’s action brought in- January, 1896, to compel the defendant Ford, a contractor, and the other defendants, commissioners of highways of the town of Glen, to restore to that town about $1,200, alleged to have been illegally paid to the defendant Ford by collusion of the other defendants, and also a small amount paid to defendant Yates. It was held…
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
The sums in controversy here represent one-half the expense of putting into a good state of repair, in September or October, 1894, the walls of the north approach and abutment of a bridge across Mohawk river, between the towns of Glen and Mohawk, in the county of Montgomery. Prior to 1866 there was at this locality a toll bridge. By chapter 180 of the Laws of 1865, as amended by' chapter 106 of the Laws of 1866, provision was made for the construction at that point of a free bridge, which should be a joint bridge between the two towns. Provision was made for receiving…
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