Armine v. Spencer
New York Supreme Court
Error from Monroe common pleas. Spencer and Salisbury declared in the C. P. in debt, on a bastardy bond bearing date the 28th June, 1827, executed by Armine and his surety to them, as “ Overseers of the poor of the town of Clarkson, in the county of Monroe, in trust for the inhabitants of the said town,” conditioned to indemnify and save harmless as well the plaintiffs, overseers of the poor of the town of Clarkson, and their successors for the time being, as also all and…
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Error from Monroe common pleas. Spencer and Salisbury declared in the C. P. in debt, on a bastardy bond bearing date the 28th June, 1827, executed by Armine and his surety to them, as “ Overseers of the poor of the town of Clarkson, in the county of Monroe, in trust for the inhabitants of the said town,” conditioned to indemnify and save harmless as well the plaintiffs, overseers of the poor of the town of Clarkson, and their successors for the time being, as also all and singular the inhabitants of the said town, from all costs and charges by reason of the birth, education and maintenance of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sutherland, J.
It is settled by the repeated adjudications of this court, that overseers of the poor are a quasi corporation, and as such can sue and be sued. *408(Pittstown v. Plattsburgh, 18 Johns. R. 418. Norwich v. New Berlin, 18 Johns. R. 382.) It has also been decided that the acting overseers of the poor are responsible for the' official contracts of their predecessors in office; (Todd & M’Cord, overseers, v. Birdsall, 1 Cowen 260, and 5 Cowen, 309;) and in Jansen v. Ostrander, (1 Cowen, 670,) it was' held that the rights and liabilities of these quasi corporations,whether they…
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