Adams v. Supervisors of Columbia County
New York Supreme Court
A RUTE was obtained at the last term, requiring the defendants to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, to compel them to audit an account of the plaintiff’s for medicine and attendance, as a physician, on one Nathaniel Turner, a pauper.
1Per curiam
The act of 24th March, 1809, (sess. 32. e. 90.) makes it the duty of the overseers, or one of them, of the city or town in which any pauper happens to be, who requires relief, and hath no settlement within the state, to inquire, together with any justice of the county, into the condition of the pauper, and if it shall appear necessary to the overseer or justice, the justice is to give an order on the overseers for an allowance to the pauper, and such allowance is to be a county charge.
The first question in this case is, whether the order was valid. The act does not require two justices to…
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