Shiebler v. Griffing

Plaintiffs have brought a taxpayers’ action under section 51 of the General Municipal Law against the above named defendants to compel restitution of the sum of $2,500 paid pursuant to a certain resolution of the board of supervisors of Suffolk county, December 30, 1907, said resolution being as follows:

“Resolved, That the County Judge of Suffolk County be allowed five hundred dollars per annum as salary for a Clerk from the first day of January, 1908, the same to be paid by the County Treasurer out of any money he may have on hand not otherwise appropriated.”

There seems to be no doubt that…