Lewis v. . the State
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a decision of the Board of Claims, rendered October 10, 1883, dismissing a claim preferred by the appellant against the State on the ground that the facts stated in the petition did not constitute a cause of action. The substance of said facts are stated in the opinion. Plaintiff’s claim is equally valid under the statutes conferring jurisdiction on the old Board of Audit and the present Board of Claims against the State.
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Appeal from a decision of the Board of Claims, rendered October 10, 1883, dismissing a claim preferred by the appellant against the State on the ground that the facts stated in the petition did not constitute a cause of action. The substance of said facts are stated in the opinion. Plaintiff’s claim is equally valid under the statutes conferring jurisdiction on the old Board of Audit and the present Board of Claims against the State. (1 R.S. [7th ed.] 642, § 46; 646, §1; 648, §10; 651, §1; 60S, §§ 8-6; Laws of 1830, chap. 293, §§ 1, 2; Laws of 1836, chap. 287, §§ 10, 11; Laws of 1839, chap.…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
The claimant in March, 1879, was convicted of the crime of burglary and sentenced to the State prison or Industrial Reformatory established at Elmira, described (Laws of 1870, chap. 427) as the State Reformatory. The statute in relation to this institution declares that its discipline shall be reformatory, empowers its managers to use such means of reformation consistent with the improvement of its inmates as they may deem expedient, and declares that agricultural labor or mechanical industry may be resorted to by them as an instrument of reformation, but excludes the contract system of labor…
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