Legal Opinion
People ex rel. v. Dayton
New York Supreme Court
Decided November 15, 1874PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWestbrook, J.
— This cause presents the question whether a writ of peremptory mandamus should issue requiring the respondent to pay over to the relator the sum of $1,805, which he has received in his official capacity as supervisor of the town of Watervliet, to pay bills which had been audited and allowed to the relator by the board of town auditors of that town, for services performed by him as justice of . the peace of said town.
It was conceded upon the trial that, for services performed by the relator as justice of the peace of the town of Watervliet, there had been audited and allowed to him in the…
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