Hicks v. Eggleston
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Willett Hides, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Orange Special Term, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 13th day of February, 1904, directing the plaintiff to serve a bill of particulars.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, J.:
The defendants are the members of the board of supervisors of Dutchess county and its late sheriff; the plaintiff is a resident and a taxpayer therein. The complaint alleges that the sheriff presented a bill against the county to the board which‘is largely in excess of the true amount the sheriff is legally entitled to claim, and that the board has audited the same, allowed it and ordered it paid in full. The complaint also alleges that an item of over $13,000 was for 4,262 2/7 weeks board of prisoners in the county jail of Dutchess county, charged for at the rate of $3.25 per…
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