Smith v. Chuckrow

The board of supervisors of the county of Rensselaer by resolution, pursuant to section 180 of the County Law, subdivided the county, in 1922, into four coroner districts and fixed the salary for the coroners of these districts in varying amounts. This section of the law, which confers the authority for this division of a county into coroner districts, provides that “ there shall be elected one coroner from each of such districts, each of whom shall have jurisdiction to perform the duties of the office anywhere within the territorial limits of such county.”

The third district so established…