People ex rel. Bliss v. Board of Supervisors
New York Supreme Court
William Y. Bliss applied for a writ of mandamus to the board of supervisors of Cortland county to audit and allow his bill of $150 for six days’ services as an expert physician and witness in a murder trial, rendered, as lie alleged, on an agreement with the district attorney that lie should receive $25 per day therefor. An alternative writ was allowed.
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William Y. Bliss applied for a writ of mandamus to the board of supervisors of Cortland county to audit and allow his bill of $150 for six days’ services as an expert physician and witness in a murder trial, rendered, as lie alleged, on an agreement with the district attorney that lie should receive $25 per day therefor. An alternative writ was allowed. His bill had been presented to the board, and by it referred to a committee, which, after an informal proceeding, had reported that the district attorney had not made, and could not make, an agreement to pay any fixed amount, and recommended…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
By 1 Rev. St. (Birdseye Ed.) p. 732, it is provided: “The following shall be deemed county charges: * * * Second. The fees oí the district attorney and all expenses necessarily incurred by him in criminal cases arising within the county. * * * Ninth. The moneys necessarily expended by any county officer in executing the duties of his office, in cases where no specific compensation for such services is provided by law.” Under these statutes, the district attorney had power to employ the relator to assist in consulting upon the trial of this case; and such has been found to have been the…
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