People ex rel. Coleman v. Dikeman
New York Supreme Court
Application for an alternative mandamus. The trustees of the village of Williamshurgh, Kings county, were by an act of the legislature of May 21, 1836, authorized to erect therein cells and prison rooms for the confinement and detention of prisoners from the town of Bushwick and from said village: and also from time to time to appoint a cells keeper, whose compensation was to be paid by the county.
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Application for an alternative mandamus. The trustees of the village of Williamshurgh, Kings county, were by an act of the legislature of May 21, 1836, authorized to erect therein cells and prison rooms for the confinement and detention of prisoners from the town of Bushwick and from said village: and also from time to time to appoint a cells keeper, whose compensation was to be paid by the county. By an act of the 15th March 1848, the electors of said village were authorized to elect a cells keeper, who was to hold his office for one year and until a successor should be elected and duly…
1Opinion of the Court
S. B. Strong, Justice.
The relator claims to be the duly appointed keeper of Ihe cells or prison rooms in the city of Williams-burgh, and has applied to this court to issue a writ of mandamus, requiring the defendant, who is in the actual occupancy of such cells or prison rooms, by virtue or under color of an election to the office of keeper by the inhabitants of the then village, now city of Williamsburgh, on the second Tuesday in April 1851, to admit the relator to the possession of the property, and to the performance of the duties of the office. The following is a *126statement of the facts…
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