People ex rel. Lowell v. Board of Town Auditors
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order awarding a peremptory mandamus requiring the defendants forthwith to assemble and audit the relator’s claim against their town.
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APPEAL from an order awarding a peremptory mandamus requiring the defendants forthwith to assemble and audit the relator’s claim against their town. On the 15th of March, fifteen persons, eligible to the office of supervisor of the town of Westford, signed a’ call for a special town meeting of said town “ for the purpose of paying bounties to volunteers in the military or naval service of the United States during the existence of the war now carried on, and for the purpose of paying the incidental expenses of such volunteering, and of raising such money.” This call was filed in the clerk’s…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Parker, J.
This is an appeal from an order made at special term granting a peremptory mandamus requiring the defendants forthwith to assemble and allow the relator’s claim of $300 against the town.
This claim arose as follows: On the 24th of March, 1864, the town of Westford, at a special town meeting held on that day, passed the following resolution : “ Resolved, that there be paid the sum of three hundred dollars to each man drafted, and not exempted, and the same be raised by a tax upon the taxable property of the town.” *558IThd-fdsq'lution was amended so as to include those that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People Ex Rel. A. Oakey Hall v. Board of SupervisorsNew York Court of Appeals · 1865
3Cited by4 opinions
- People ex rel. Fraser v. Board of Auditors of HamdenNew York Supreme Court · 1893
- Northrup v. Town of PittsfieldNew York Supreme Court · 1873
- People ex rel. Johnson v. MartinNew York Supreme Court · 1872
- People ex rel. Wells v. Board of AuditNew York Supreme Court · 1875