Town of Guilford v. . the Supervisors of Chenango County
New York Court of Appeals
The action was brought in the supreme court, in the name of the town of Guilford one of the towns of the county of Chenango, against Cornell and Clark and the board of supervisors of Chenango county, to restrain the board of supervisors from levying and collecting from the taxable property of the citizens of the town, a sum awarded to Cornell and Clark under and pursuant to an act of the legislature for their relief {Laws of 1852, p. 12); and which' the act directed the…
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The action was brought in the supreme court, in the name of the town of Guilford one of the towns of the county of Chenango, against Cornell and Clark and the board of supervisors of Chenango county, to restrain the board of supervisors from levying and collecting from the taxable property of the citizens of the town, a sum awarded to Cornell and Clark under and pursuant to an act of the legislature for their relief {Laws of 1852, p. 12); and which' the act directed the board of supervisors to assess and collect from the taxable property of the town of Guilford. The principal question was…
1Opinion of the Court
Cornell and Clark were formerly commis sioners of highways of the town of Guilford, and as such, by direction of the voters of the town, had sued the Butternuts and Oxford Turnpike Road Company. They were unsuccessful in the action, and were, after a long litigation, obliged to pay costs. The town then refused to reimburse them these costs. Cornell and Clark sued the town, and, after prosecuting the action to the court of last resort, ascertained that they had no legal remedy. They then applied to the legislature, and procured an act authorizing the question of payment or not by the town, to…
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