Francis v. . City of Troy
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon a submission under section 372 of the old Code. (Reported below, 10 Hun, 515.) The facts submitted were, in substance, these : Plaintiffs are publishers of the Troy Daily Times, a newspaper published daily in the city of Troy.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon a submission under section 372 of the old Code. (Reported below, 10 Hun, 515.) The facts submitted were, in substance, these : Plaintiffs are publishers of the Troy Daily Times, a newspaper published daily in the city of Troy. The common council of said city, in March, 1876, designated by ordinance said paper as one of the four official papers of the city as required by the city charter (§ 3, title 2, chap. 129, Laws of 1872, as amended by chap. 813, Laws of…
1Opinion of the CourtRapallo, J.
I think that section 13 of title 5 of the charter of the city of Troy, is intended to cover the whole subject of advertising notices of the sale of lands for taxes. The duty of causing these notices to be published is imposed exclusively on the chamberlain; the number of papers in which they are to be published is limited to two. These must be daily papers, and they are to be selected by the chamberlain, and not the common council, and they need not be papers appointed by the common council to do the city advertising. The expense of the advertising thus authorized to be caused by the…
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