People ex rel. Pulman v. Henion
New York Supreme Court
Certiorari by Willard Pulman to review the decision of Charles R. Henion and others, water commissioners, denying the application of relator and others for the repair of certain ditches in the towns of Waterloo, Junius, Seneca Palls, and Tyre, in the county of Seneca.
1Opinion of the CourtDwight, P. J.
The four defendants were, respectively, the supervisors, and ex officio the “water commissioners,” of the four towns mentioned in the proceeding. The latter office was created by chapter 557, Laws 1890, § 25, and the proceedings here reviewed were taken in attempted compliance with the provisions of that act. Those proceedings were to procure the repair of certain ditches which had been constructed more than 20 years before under the provisions of a special act of the legislature relating to the four towns mentioned therein. That act was chapter 372 of the Laws of 1867. It was entitled “An…
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