Odom v. McCall

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Dier,- J.), entered July 10, 1998 in Washington County, which denied petitioner’s application for an order to show cause commencing a proceeding against respondents pursuant to CPLR article 78.

As the result of three claims against the State, petitioner, a prison inmate, obtained judgments totaling $2,826.38. Claiming that respondent Comptroller refused to pay the judgments despite the filing of the necessary documents, petitioner sought to commence a CPLR article 78 proceeding to compel the Comptroller to issue a check in the amount of the…