In Re the Application for an Attachment Against Bradner
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General • Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, made October 29, 1880, which affirmed in part, and reversed in part, an order made by a justice of that court. On the 23d of December, 1879, a subpoena signed “ Lester B. Faulkner, chairman of the committee,” was served upon the respondents.
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Appeal from order of the General • Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, made October 29, 1880, which affirmed in part, and reversed in part, an order made by a justice of that court. On the 23d of December, 1879, a subpoena signed “ Lester B. Faulkner, chairman of the committee,” was served upon the respondents. By it they were commanded to appear before a committee of the board of supervisors of Livingston county, at a time and place named, to give such information as might be in their possession as to “ who ” then were “ railroad commissioners of the town of North…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
We think neither appeal can succeed. The case is limited by the facts disclosed in' the petition. It there appears that the supervisors of Livingston county appointed a committee for the purpose indicated in the subpoena. The act referred to (Laws of 1868, chap. 442) contains a scheme for bonding the town of ¡North Dansville(among others) for certain railroad purposes, through the intervention of persons called “ railroad commissioners.” The manner of their appointment (§§ 1,12), and their powers ahd duties are there prescribed (§§ 2, 3). They have no relation to the county, nor are they, in…
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