People ex rel. Little v. Willsea
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term which granted a writ of peremptory mandamus directed to the defendant as supervisor of the town of Greenburgh, Westchester county, commanding him to deliver to the relators bonds of the said town as required by chapter 884, Laws of 1871, as amended by chapter 639, Laws of 1872. The papers showed that the petitioners were the commissioners appointed…
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term which granted a writ of peremptory mandamus directed to the defendant as supervisor of the town of Greenburgh, Westchester county, commanding him to deliver to the relators bonds of the said town as required by chapter 884, Laws of 1871, as amended by chapter 639, Laws of 1872. The papers showed that the petitioners were the commissioners appointed under said acts for the purposes thereof; that they determined it to be necessary that the lands described should be…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
The original "drainage act (Laws of 1871, chap. 884) entitled “ An act to provide for the drainage of the swamp, bog, and other low and wet lands, in the village of White Plains, and adjacent thereto,” provided that proceedings might be taken as prescribed in the body of the act, for the drainage of lands in the “village or town of White Plains,” and for charging the expense upon the property benefited, and (conditionally) upon the village and town of White Plains. The act did not extend to lands lying in the town of Greenburgh, and it is not claimed that, under it, that town, or lands…
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