People ex rel. Wogan v. Rafferty
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, John T. Rafferty, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the relator, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 23d day of July, 1912, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
This appeal brings, up for review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Kings county in an action of quo warranto instituted by the People of the State upon the relation of Thomas P. Wogan (hereinafter styled the plaintiff) against John T. Bafferty (hereinafter styled the defendant) to test the title to the office of chief clerk of the County Court of Kings county, now held by defendant, and to which plaintiff claims title by virtue of an appointment for the term of five years, made in July, 1911, and which will not terminate until July, 1916. The judgment appealed from held that…
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