Hayes v. Symonds
New York Supreme Court
Appeal, by the plaintiff, from a judgment of nonsuit entered upon a report of referees. The action was brought against the defendants as superintendents of the poor of the county of Jefferson, to recover the amount of an account for supplies furnished by the plaintiff for the county poor-house in the year 1848, before the defendants became superintendents of the poor.
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Appeal, by the plaintiff, from a judgment of nonsuit entered upon a report of referees. The action was brought against the defendants as superintendents of the poor of the county of Jefferson, to recover the amount of an account for supplies furnished by the plaintiff for the county poor-house in the year 1848, before the defendants became superintendents of the poor. The complaint averred in substance that at the date of the making and accruing of the account sued upon, being from February, 1848, to September, 1848, Stephen Boon, Jabez Hunting, and Charles Sexton, jun. were superintendents…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Gridley, J.
This ease comes before the court on an appeal from a judgment entered on a report of referees. The claim of the plaintiff is founded on an indebtedness which accrued for supplies furnished for the Jefferson county poorhouse while the predecessors of the present defendants held the office of superintendents of the poor.. The defense relied on is, that the superintendents, as a corporation, or in the character of superintendents, never contracted the debt.
I. A question is made, whether an action can be maintained against the superintendents, as a corporation, for…
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