The People Ex Rel. v. . Knowles
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, affirming the proceedings and judgment of the county judge of St. Lawrence county, in proceedings under the town bonding act, chap. 907, Laws of 1869, brought up for review upon writs of certiorari.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, affirming the proceedings and judgment of the county judge of St. Lawrence county, in proceedings under the town bonding act, chap. 907, Laws of 1869, brought up for review upon writs of certiorari. A petition under said act was made and signed by the taxpayers of the town of Hammond, in the county of St. Lawrence, and presented to the county judge of said county for the purpose mentioned in and authorized by said act. The county judge made the orders and publications prescribed by the statute, and…
1Opinion of the CourtRapallo, J.
The county judge has not returned the evidence taken before him to prove the identity of the petitioners and their signatures to the petitions.
His return to the writ of certiorari states that it was proven that each name subscribed to the petitions, or either of them, was written by or upon the request of the person so named, and whose name appeared (except as otherwise mentioned in the return) upon the list or roll, or as a tax-payer of the town.
This statement in the return is all that the record contains to show the authenticity of the signatures appended to the several petitions. How many…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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