Sutherland v. St. Lawrence County
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, St. Lawrence County, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of St, Lawrence on the 13th day of August, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the St. Lawrence Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The action is to recover money deposited by .one Richardson, in lieu of bail, on an adjournment of an examination before a conn mitting magistrate, on- a criminal charge against him of arson in the second dégree. ,.
Richardson had been duly arrested arid arraigned, and on his request.'an adjournment of his examination was had. The magistrate fixed .the amount of his bail pending the adjournment at $1,000, and oti his failure to give it he was committed to the jail of St. Lawrerice county. While thus confined he notified the sheriff that he desired to deposit the money in lieu of…
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