Sutphen v. Clark
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Jennie C. Sutphen, from a judgment of the County Court of ¡Niagara county in' favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 10th day of December,. 1906, reversing a judgment of the Justice’s Court of the city of Lockport. ' . " ;
1Opinion of the Court
Robson, J.:
The only question to be determined on this appeal is presented ■by reason of. a difference of opinion of the parties as to the meaning of, and construction to.be given to, that portion of the charter, or legislative enactment, continuing the reconstructed - municipal. *672corporation, known as the City of Lockport, which' designates the powers and limitations of justices of. the peace for that city, who have been qualified under the provisions of that statute to act as such judicial' officers. ■ .
The corporation lines of the city of Lockport are wholly within the town of Lockport, from…
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