Parker v. . Bd. of Sup'rs of Saratoga Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made the 4th Tuesday of January, 1885, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made the 4th Tuesday of January, 1885, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury. This action was brought upon certain notes issued to Hiram Parker, plaintiff’s intestate, by Henry A. Mann, as treasurer of the county of Saratoga, of one of which notes the following is a copy: “No. 8. . “ Saratoga County Treasurer’s Office, ) “Ballston Spa, February 15, 1875. f “ In pursuance of a resolution, passed November,…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
The county of Saratoga after the close of the war and in November, 1865, was indebted in the sum of about $618,000 for money borrowed on the credit of the county to pay bounties to volunteers, the expenses of their enlistment, and for the support of their families. The debt was represented by notes of the county, signed by Henry A. Mann, as county treasurer, and by unsealed instruments in the form of bonds, executed in behalf of the county by the chairman of the board of supervisors and by Mann as treasurer. It was divided into two classes, the county bounty debt (so-called), amounting to…
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