Willett v. Devoy

Appeals from separate judgments in favor of each plaintiff rendered by the court without a jury upon an agreed state of facts submitted to the court in writing. Separate actions were brought- by *401each plaintiff to recover treble damages for violation by the defendant of section 67 of the Public Officers Law and section 252 of the Judiciary Law.

The plaintiffs, after being convicted of a crime in the Supreme Court, appealed from the judgments of conviction to the Appellate Division, and for the purposes of such appeals it was necessary under the practice that the stenographer’s minutes as taken…