Gibson v. Roach
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Abram O'. Gibson, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 13th day of Hovember, 1895, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Richmond Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, P. J.:
This action was brought by a taxpayer to obtain a judgment annulling a resolution passed at the annual meeting of school district Ho. 2 in the -town- of Castleton,.county of Richmond, which fixed the annual salary of the clerk of said district at $200> and to restrain the defendants, the trustees of said district, from paying said salary to said clerk.
The statute applicable to the case is chapter 510, Laws of 1855, the 1st section of which is as follows
*87“ Section 1. The trustees of each of the school ■ districts, two, tliree, five and seven, in the town of Castleton, in the county…
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