People v. Miner
New York Supreme Court
This was an appeal by the defendant from a judgment for the plaintiff entered on a referee’s report. The action was brought under leave obtained therefor in the name of the people, &c., against the defendants, as commissioners, appointed under the act of April 23, 1867 (chap. 581, p. 1561) for the town of Augusta, in Oneida county, for a perpetual injunction restraining them from issuing certain bonds authorized by that act for railroad purposes.
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This was an appeal by the defendant from a judgment for the plaintiff entered on a referee’s report. The action was brought under leave obtained therefor in the name of the people, &c., against the defendants, as commissioners, appointed under the act of April 23, 1867 (chap. 581, p. 1561) for the town of Augusta, in Oneida county, for a perpetual injunction restraining them from issuing certain bonds authorized by that act for railroad purposes. The referee reported against the validity of the bonds, on account-of the commissioners’ failure to take the requisite preliminary - steps, under…
1Opinion of the CourtMullin, J.
In the case of Knox v. Miner et al., in which an appeal was argued at the last term, from an order dissolving an injunction, I came to the conclusion, that the plaintiff in that case, could maintain an action to restrain the issuing of the bonds, of the town of Augusta, to secure the payment of moneys borrowed, to be applied in payment of stock in the Utica, Clinton and Chenango Railroad Company ; and I came to the further conclusion that there was no equity in the complaint, entitling the plaintiff to the relief demanded.
The last mentioned question arises in this case, also, together with…
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