People ex rel. Wood v. Denton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, William II. Wood, as sheriff of Nassau County, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 21st day of April, 1899, denying the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the respondents to audit the claim of the relator for traveling expenses incurred by him in the execution of several processes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
The relator is the sheriff of the new county of Nassau. In March, 1899, there was placed in his hands process for service in various actions and proceedings, for the execution of which he received the smn of forty-five dollars and three cents as fees and mileage. In serving such process he was required to expend and actually and necessarily did expend the sum of seven dollars and fifty-four cents for traveling expenses. He lias paid over to the county treasurer of Nassau county the entire amount of forty-live dollars and three cents received by him for fees and mileage as…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. FlandersSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
3Cited by1 opinion
- Dos Passos v. City of New YorkAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1904