People Ex Rel. Taylor v. . Dunlap
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department affirming a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon a verdict. This action was in the nature of a quo warranta to determine the title to the office of commissioner of jurors.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department affirming a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon a verdict. This action was in the nature of a quo warranta to determine the title to the office of commissioner of jurors. The relator was appointed to that office Hay 31,1864, under the provisions of the act creating it (chap. 495, Laws of 1847), and continued to act until displaced by defendant, who was appointed July 22, 1875, under the provisions of the city charter of 1873. (Chap. 335, Laws of 1873.) Further facts appear in the opinion.…
1Opinion of the CourtAlNdrews, J.
The office of commissioner of jurors, the title to which is in controversy in this action, was created by chapter 495 of the Laws of 1847, entitled “An act in relation to jurors in the city of Hew York.”
The general purpose of the act, as its provisions indicate, was to provide a system for ascertaining the persons liable to perform jury duty in the city of Hew York, and for distributing the jury service, and enforcing its performance in aid of the administration of justice by the courts of general and local jurisdiction therein.
Prior to the act of 1847, the mode of selecting jurors in the…
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