People ex rel. Spaulding v. Board of Supervisors

The relator seeks a peremptory writ of mandamus against the board of supervisors of Saratoga county to compel the payment of a claim assigned to him. The assignor, W. J. May-bee, had a claim against the county for $926 for services in placing poor children in worthy homes under resolutions of the board in the years 1896, 1897, 1898 and 1899, authorizing the relator, who was superintendent of the poor of that county from the year 1895 to 1901, to arrange with the assignor Maybee, to provide homes for indigent children at a sum not to exceed $50 a year. Under such resolutions and a contract…