People ex rel. Bockes v. Wemple
New York Supreme Court
Appeal by the relator from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the clerk’s office in the county of Albany on the 18th day of March, 1889, which denied a motion, made by the relator for an order for a peremptory writ of mcmdmius to be issued to the comptroller of the State of New York, directing him to draw his warrant -upon the treasurer of the State for the sum of $300, which became due to the above-named relator, Augustus Bockes,…
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Appeal by the relator from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the clerk’s office in the county of Albany on the 18th day of March, 1889, which denied a motion, made by the relator for an order for a peremptory writ of mcmdmius to be issued to the comptroller of the State of New York, directing him to draw his warrant -upon the treasurer of the State for the sum of $300, which became due to the above-named relator, Augustus Bockes, on tbe 1st day of April, 1888; and for the further sum of $300, which became due to said Bockes on the 1st day of July,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was written at Special Term:
Mayham, J.
The relator who, for more than ten years prior to January 1, 1888, had served as justice of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial district, having been last elected to said office at a general election in 1875, and entered upon the term of fourteen years from that date, was by reason of his age abridged in his term of service on the first day of January 1888, under the provisions of section 13 of article 6 of the State Constitution, which provides as follows : “ The official terms of the said justices and judges, who shall be…
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