Gordon v. . Cornes
New York Court of Appeals
Appeals from judgments of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the seventh judicial district, affirming judgments for defendants entered upon reports of a referee. The actions were in trespass for taking certain personal property of plaintiffs, who were tax-payers and residents in the village of Broclcport, Monroe county. Defendant, Williams, was the tax collector, and the other defendants were the trustees of said village.
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Appeals from judgments of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the seventh judicial district, affirming judgments for defendants entered upon reports of a referee. The actions were in trespass for taking certain personal property of plaintiffs, who were tax-payers and residents in the village of Broclcport, Monroe county. Defendant, Williams, was the tax collector, and the other defendants were the trustees of said village. In 1866 the legislature of this State passed an act entitled “ an act in regard to normal schools,” authorizing the establishment of four additional normal or training…
1Opinion of the CourtRapallo, J.
The appellants in these actions claim that the act of the legislature authorizing the tax for the collection of which their property was levied upon, was unconstitutional, and that, therefore, the trustees who issued the ' warrant, and the collector who attempted to execute it were guilty of a trespass.
The act in question was passed March 19, 1867 (Laws of 1867, chap. 96), and empowTered the trustees of the village of Brockport to raise the money necessary to carry into effect certain proposals which they had made pursuant to chapter 466 of the Laws of 1866, for the establishment of a normal…
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