Tilford v. Mayor
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, William H. Tilford, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Putnam on the 15th day of June, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Putnam Circuit dismissing the plaintiffs complant.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, P. J.:
The plaintiff alleged in his complaint that in May, 1893, his son, who resided with him on his farm at Lake Mahopac, in Putnam county, was ill with typhoid fever, and that during that month “ the defendant, by its officers or representatives, entered upon the premises occupied by the plaintiff at Lake Mahopac, aforesaid, in company with a deputy sheriff of Putnam county, and ordered plaintiff to remain in the house aforesaid, and placed said deputy sheriff in charge of the house and persons therein, with orders to arrest plaintiff or any of his family who attempted to leave the…
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- Smith v. . City of RochesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
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- Dilluvio v. City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1911