Wallace v. Jones
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, George Wallace, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 6th day qf December, 1906, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Nassau Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon the merits. Judgment affirmed, with costs, on the opinion of Mr. Justice Garbetson at Special Term.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, George Wallace, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 6th day qf December, 1906, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Nassau Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon the merits. Judgment affirmed, with costs, on the opinion of Mr. Justice Garbetson at Special Term. Woodward, Jenks, Rich and Miller, JJ., Concurred; Hirschberg, P. J., not voting.
1Opinion of the Court
The following is the opinion delivered at Special Term:
Garretson, J. :
The plaintiff, a taxpayer of the county of Nassau, has brought this action against the three defendants, who composed the board of Supervisors of that county, to recover from them the amount of certain items in the several bills of said defendants for services and disbursements as supervisors, which it is alleged were collusively audited by the said board.
This action is instituted and is sought to be maintained under section 1 of the “ Taxpayers’ Act,” so called, being chapter 581 of the Laws of 1881, as amended by chapter…
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- People Ex Rel. Oneida Valley National Bank v. Board of SupervisorsNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
- People ex. rel. Baldwin v. Board of SupervisorsNew York Supreme Court · 1857
- Wallace v. . JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
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