People ex rel. Brown v. Board of Apportionment & Audit
New York Court of Appeals
These are appeals from orders of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming orders of Special Term, one denying an application for a writ of peremptory mandamus to compel the board of apportionment and audit of the city of Yew York to allow certain claims of relator, and the other denying an application for a mandamus to compel the comptroller of said city to pay said claims.
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These are appeals from orders of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming orders of Special Term, one denying an application for a writ of peremptory mandamus to compel the board of apportionment and audit of the city of Yew York to allow certain claims of relator, and the other denying an application for a mandamus to compel the comptroller of said city to pay said claims. The claims were for city advertising in the Yew York Argus, under resolutions of the common council. The accounts had been audited and approved by the auditor of accounts under the…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
By chapter 9 of the Laws of 1872, the comptroller, the commissioner of public works and the president of the department of public parks of the city of Hew York were constituted a board of apportionment and audit, with certain defined powers, among which is the power to audit and allow unpaid claims against the city of the description specified in the act. The second section requires that the meetings of the board shall be public and upon notice, and that claims presented to the board (except for salaries and wages) shall be read by the clerk at the time of presentation, and shall lie on the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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