In re Town of Hempstead
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from order of judge, Kings county. Proceeding before a justice of the supreme court on application of the freeholders of the town of Hempstead for a summary investigation into the financial affairs of the town.
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Appeal from order of judge, Kings county. Proceeding before a justice of the supreme court on application of the freeholders of the town of Hempstead for a summary investigation into the financial affairs of the town. There was an order by the justice confirming the report of the experts and declaring certain acts of the officers of the town and of certain individual town officers illegal, and restraining the payment of certain claims against the town and imposing upon such officers and persons the costs of the proceedings, and they appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHatch, J.
The proceeding which furnishes the basis of this appeal was instituted by the affidavit of 33 freeholders of the town of Hempstead, which was presented to a justice of the supreme court, praying for an investigation of the financial affairs of the town, the accounts of the officers, and of each and all of the bills and accounts audited and allowed by the officers of the town during the year 1896. The persons named as constituting the town board were George W. Smith, supervisor, James B. Curley, town clerk, and Francis B. Taylor, Eustace H. Wheeler, and George W. Smith, three justices of the…
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- Matter of Taxpayers of PlattsburghNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- In re EngelbrechtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Ghiglione v. MarshAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- In re Town of EastchesterNew York Supreme Court · 1889
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- In re Rapid Transit CommissionersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
- In re HempsteadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899