People ex rel. Kinney v. Board of Supervisors
New York Supreme Court
APPLICATION for a mandamus, to be directed to the defendants, requiring them to audit and allow certain claims of the relator against the county of Cortland, for printing. The action was tried at a special term, before Justice Murray, without a jury, a jury trial having been waived by the parties.
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APPLICATION for a mandamus, to be directed to the defendants, requiring them to audit and allow certain claims of the relator against the county of Cortland, for printing. The action was tried at a special term, before Justice Murray, without a jury, a jury trial having been waived by the parties. Such justice, after hearing the proofs and allegations of the parties, found the following facts : On the 21st of November, 1868, the board of supervisors of the county of Cortland passed a resolution that its clerk should, for two weeks after that date, receive sealed proposals for printing, per…
1Opinion of the CourtMurray, J.
In December, 1868, the board of supervisors of Cortland county contracted in advance for all the printing required by the county officers of that county for the coming year, at a fixed price, with one Jones. The county officers did not regard that contract as binding upon them, and each employed the relator to do his official printing. The clerk and surrogate agreed with him, as to the price of the printing done for each of them. The price agreed upon was reasonable, and according to the usual rates charged by other printers, for the like services, but more than Jones had contracted with the…
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