People ex rel. Luyster v. Cocks
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 7th day of February, 1916, directed to James H. Cocks and others, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau all and singular their proceedings had in auditing and disallowing the bill of the relator against the town of Oyster Bay.
1Opinion of the Court
Carr, J.:
The relator is a justice of the peace of the town of Oyster Bay, in Nassau county. He presented a claim to the town *738board for audit, covering services rendered by him officially in various criminal proceedings which had been pending before him. The amounts generally chargeable for the services of a justice of the peace in criminal proceedings are regulated by section 740a of the Code of Criminal Procedure (as added by Laws of 1909, chap. 66). However, by chapter 11 of the Laws of 1915, a new section, numbered 107a, was added to the Town Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 62; Laws of 1909,…
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