People v. Keenan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the, defendant, Patrick Keenan, as chamberlain of the city of New. York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county'of New York on the 7th day of March, 1905, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus directed to the defendant commanding him to pay over to the Treasurer of the State of New York all moneys paid into court and in his custody which have remained Unclaimed for twenty years or…
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Appeal by the, defendant, Patrick Keenan, as chamberlain of the city of New. York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county'of New York on the 7th day of March, 1905, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus directed to the defendant commanding him to pay over to the Treasurer of the State of New York all moneys paid into court and in his custody which have remained Unclaimed for twenty years or more in the office of the chamberlain.of the city o'f Hew York and his predecessors, and of the treasurers of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The appellant, as chamberlain of the city of Héw York, has in his possession more than half a million dollars, the aggregate of many court deposits made with his predecessors more than twenty years ago. The State of Hew York claims these- moneys should be paid over to its Treasurer by virtue of the. provisions of section 9 of chapter 651 of the Laws of 1892, which reads as follows: , '
■ “ § 9. Whenever any sum of money paid into;court shall have remained in the hands of any county treasurer or of the chamberlain .of the city of Hew York, for the period of twenty years^' it shall…
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