Matter of Ryers
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 the County Court of Richmond county auditing and confirming the accounts of commissioners appointed under the General Drainage Act (chap. 888, Laws of 1869), to drain lands in said county.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the second judicial department, affirming an order of the County Court of Richmond county auditing and confirming the accounts of commissioners appointed under the General Drainage Act (chap. 888, Laws of 1869), to drain lands in said county. (Memoranda of decision below, 10 Hun, 93.) The order appointing the commissioners was made by the county judge of said county in March, 1870. It appeared by the petition that he owned lands affected by the proceedings. The County Court, by-whom the order appealed from was granted, was held by…
1Opinion of the CourtFolger, J.
We think the order is appealable. The act of 1869 (Laws of 1869, chap. 888, p. 2223, § 12), gives an appeal on questions of law from the decision of any county judge to the Supreme Court. The act of 1871 (Laws of 1871, chap. 303, p. 603, § 4), which substituted the County Court for the county judge, brings, in effect, the order of the County Court under the same right of appeal. The provision in section twelve of the act of 1869, that the order made on application for an accounting is final, must be harmonized with the provision of the same section for an appeal on questions of law. The two…
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