Domes v. Board of Supervisors

The county of Erie is a municipal corporation (County Law, § 3) and is an “ authorized agency ” under section 300, subdivision (i) of the State Charities Law (added by Laws of 1923, chap. 706, as amd. by Laws of 1924, chap. 437), empowered to board out dependent children in family homes. (State Charities Law, § 303, added by Laws of 1923, chap. 706, as amd. by Laws of 1924, chap. 437.)

The county of Erie, through its commissioner of charities and corrections, boarded out twenty such children, during the years 1926-1927 and 1927-1928, in family homes in school district No. 10 of the town of…