People v. . Platt
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made September 11, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict. The nature of the action and the facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made September 11, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict. The nature of the action and the facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The proposition that when any statute of this state requires that a citizen should reside in a certain locality as a qualification for a particular office, it is not enough that he should have actually resided there before his appointment to the office, at the time of such appointment and during his…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
The act of April 29, 1863, establishing a quarantine, and, among other things, defining the qualifications of certain officers who should execute the powers and perform ■the duties created by it (Laws of 1863, chap. 358), made it the duty of the governor to appoint “ three discreet persons, citizens of this state, who shall be residents of the ‘ Metropolitan Police District,’ ” as commissioners of quarantine, who should hold their offices for three years and until their successors were appointed and qualified, and required him every .three years thereafter, and as often as vacancies should…
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