Schenectady Illuminating Co. v. Board of Supervisors

The Schenectady Illuminating Company, a transportation corporation, as relator, applies-for a writ of mandamus to compel the board of supervisors of Schenectady county to reconvene, reconsider their action taken upon a claim of the relator, and re-audit the same, they having theretofore rejected said claim on the ground that the same was not a legal charge against said county.

In July, 1914, the board of supervisors, through its committee on charities and the superintendent of the poor and keeper of the almshouse of Schenectady county, served upon the illuminating company a demand, in writing,…