Parker v. Baker
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from, a decision of the vice chancellor of the eighth circuit, denying a motion to dismiss the complainant’s bill for want of prosecution. The application was founded upon an affidavit sworn before one of the commissioners of deeds, recently appointed by the governor, with the consent of the senate, for the city of Buffalo.
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This was an appeal from, a decision of the vice chancellor of the eighth circuit, denying a motion to dismiss the complainant’s bill for want of prosecution. The application was founded upon an affidavit sworn before one of the commissioners of deeds, recently appointed by the governor, with the consent of the senate, for the city of Buffalo. The vice chancellor decided that there was no law authorizing the governor to appoint commissioners of deeds in Buffalo, and that there were therefore no such officers as commissioners of deeds for that city who were authorized to take affidavits to be…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The laws of this state recognize the existence of two classes of commissioners of deeds, who are authorized to take affidavits to be read in this court, and to perform various other duties prescribed by law; commissioners for counties and commissioners for cities. (2 R. S. 282, § 41; 284, § 39.) And provision is also *429made by law for determinining from time to time the number to be appointed in each city of the state, except in the city of New-York, and the number in each town in the several counties. (1 R. S. 101, § 2, 5.) The affidavit in this case has been taken before an…
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