DeGraff v. Joyce

Thomas H. Noonan,

Official Referee. In this action the plaintiffs are seeking a declaratory judgment on various questions of difference existing between the trustees of DeGraff Memorial Hospital and Myles W. Joyce, as mayor of North Tonawanda, especially in relation to the power of the mayor in appointing the trustees of said hospital, and the power of said trustees in the management of the same.

When the case came before Justice Samuel J. Harris he referred it to me, an official referee of the Supreme Court, to hear and determine, and it was heard at Buffalo, N. Y., on June 21 and 26, 1939.

The…