People ex rel. Tripp v. Board of Supervisors
New York Supreme Court
Application for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the board of supervisors of Cayuga county to assemble and audit the relators’ bills for services as eápert witnesses for the People on a trial for murder.
1Opinion of the CourtDavy, J.
This' -is an application for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the' board of supervisors of Cayuga county to assemble and audit the relators’ bills -for services as expert witnesses for the People on the trial of Frank FT. Sheldon for the. murder of his wife.
It appears, from the affidavits read on this motion, that the district attorney entered into a contract with the relators, eight-in number, agreeing to pay them each fifty dollars for each day’s attendance at court during said trial, and fifty dollars for each day in FTew York, mailing experiments at Bellevue Hospital, and also a…
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