Hill v. Board of Supervisors
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from judgment on report of referee. Action by Sarah Hill against the board of supervisors of Rensselaer county, under chapter 428, Laws 1855, entitled “An act to provide for compensating parties whose property may be destroyed in consequence of mobs or riots.”
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Appeal from judgment on report of referee. Action by Sarah Hill against the board of supervisors of Rensselaer county, under chapter 428, Laws 1855, entitled “An act to provide for compensating parties whose property may be destroyed in consequence of mobs or riots.” The complaint avers that on the 19th day of July, 1886, the plaintiff was keeping the “Grove Hotel,” in the village of Lansingburgh, and on that day “a mob or riot of men” struck and intimidated her servants in charge, and thereupon destroyed a large amount of her personal property in the house. The testimony was to the effect…
1Opinion of the CourtLandon, J.
Chapter 428, Laws 1855, under which this action is brought, provides for a recovery when property “shall be destroyed or injured in consequence of any mob or riot.” It also provides that no persons shall recover if it shall appear that such destruction or injury “was occasioned, or in any manner aided, sanctioned, or permitted, by the carelessness or negligence of such person. ” The three persons who developed into rioters did so in the plaintiff’s hotel, andafter her servants (she being a licensed vendor) had freely supplied them with intoxicating drinks. Possibly they assembled there with…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Ely v. . Supervisors of Niagara CountyNew York Court of Appeals · 1867
- Hammond v. ShepardNew York Supreme Court · 1888
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