People ex rel. Porter v. City of Rochester
New York Supreme Court
CERTIORARI to review proceedings upon a local assessment for the construction of a bridge across the Genesee river. The facts appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The office of a common law certiorari is to bring up for review the proceedings of subordinate tribunals, that this court may see that such tribunals keep within the limits of their acknowledged jurisdiction. Since the decision of Birdsall v. Phillips, (17 Wend. 464,) the court has been accustomed in examining the return to these writs, to confine its decisions to mere jurisdictional facts, although in respect to proceedings between landlord and tenant, and under the insolvent acts, and other cases where the statute gives the writ, it has been since repeatedly held that the return properly…
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