Todd v. Birdsall
New York Supreme Court
On certiorari to a Justice’s Court. In the Court below, ; Birdsall declared against Todd and McCord, that he sold divers goods to Sarah Griffin, who kept a pauper of the town of Cortlandt, at the request of Jeremiah Pugsley, one of the Overseers of said town; and also for money paid to the said ^ara^1 Griffin, at the request of Pugsley, for the support of the pauper, $14. Plea, the general issue.
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On certiorari to a Justice’s Court. In the Court below, ; Birdsall declared against Todd and McCord, that he sold divers goods to Sarah Griffin, who kept a pauper of the town of Cortlandt, at the request of Jeremiah Pugsley, one of the Overseers of said town; and also for money paid to the said ^ara^1 Griffin, at the request of Pugsley, for the support of the pauper, $14. Plea, the general issue. P was admitted, that Pugsley was one of the Overseers of the Poor in i 819 and 1820, and the defendants in 1822. The plaintiff produced an order, dated January 24, 1820, brawn by Pugsley, as…
1Opinion of the Court
Curia.
Overseers of the Poor are not a corporation, according to the technical meaning of the term. In the case' of fhe Overseers of Pittstown vs. the Overseers of Plattsburgh, (18 John, 418,) they are considered as the publick agents anb trustees of the town, in respect to their poor, and possess, necessarily, without express authority from the legislature, a capacity to sue, commensurate with their publick trusts and duties. In Johnson v. Hartwell, (8 John. 424) this Court v held, that the Supervisors oí a county were a corporation f°r special purposes, and with special powers only; that…
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