People v. Hurlbutt
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action on a recognizance in the words and figures following, to wit: “State of Hew York, County of Chemung. We, Sereno Hickock of said county, and David Hurlbutt and George L. Trask of the town of Butternuts, in the county of Otsego,. acknowledge ourselves indebted to the people of the state of Hew York, in the sum of $1000: That is to say, the said Sereno Hickock in the sum of $1000, and the said David Hurlbutt and George L. Trask, each in the sum of $1000, to…
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THIS was an action on a recognizance in the words and figures following, to wit: “State of Hew York, County of Chemung. We, Sereno Hickock of said county, and David Hurlbutt and George L. Trask of the town of Butternuts, in the county of Otsego,. acknowledge ourselves indebted to the people of the state of Hew York, in the sum of $1000: That is to say, the said Sereno Hickock in the sum of $1000, and the said David Hurlbutt and George L. Trask, each in the sum of $1000, to be levied of our goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the use of the said peojile, if default shall be made in the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Balcom, J.
Until July, 1847, every judge of the county courts of any county, being of the degree of counsellor in the supreme court, was, by virtue of his office, a supreme court commissioner. (2 R. S. 281, § 32.) In December, 1847, the legislature enacted that “ every county judge within the county in which he shall have been elected, shall have power, and it shall be his duty, to perform all such duties, and to do all such acts, when not holding a county court, as might have been done or performed by the laws in force on the twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and…
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