People ex rel. Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Pierce
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Horace G. Pierce and others, as commissioners, and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 4th day of June, 1918, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Lambert, J.:
The relator is the owner of 228 assessment bonds issued by the “ Commissioners of Sewerage ” for the tenth, fifteenth and twentieth wards of the city of Rochester, and the town of Gates, all within Monroe county. These bonds were issued in 1896 and matured in 1904. They were issued pursuant to the provisions of chapter 603 of the Laws of 1892 and the various acts amendatory thereof.
The original scheme of the legislation giving rise to these bonds provided for the designation of commissioners, under whose supervision the improvement in question was had. The statute required that…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- State ex rel. Frazer v. Holt County CourtSupreme Court of Missouri · 1896
- Hook v. German American BankAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912
- People Ex Rel. Security Trust Co. v. Treasurer of the CountyNew York Court of Appeals · 1908
- Hook v. . German American BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
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- In re The City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1943