In re Town of Hempstead
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by George W. Smith and others, the town officers in the above-entitled proceeding, from an order made by a justice of the Supreme Court and entered in .the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 11th day of March, 1898, confirming the report of -experts appointed by said justice to investigate the financial affairs of the town of Hempstead, pursuant to chapter 685 of the Laws of 1892; and also declaring certain acts of the appellants, as officers •of the…
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Appeal by George W. Smith and others, the town officers in the above-entitled proceeding, from an order made by a justice of the Supreme Court and entered in .the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 11th day of March, 1898, confirming the report of -experts appointed by said justice to investigate the financial affairs of the town of Hempstead, pursuant to chapter 685 of the Laws of 1892; and also declaring certain acts of the appellants, as officers •of the town of Hempstead, and of certain individual town officers, illegal, restraining the payment of certain claims against…
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The proceeding which furnishes the basis of this appeal was instituted by the affidavit of thirty-three freeholders of the town of Hempstead, which was presented to a justice of - the Supreme.Court and prayed for an investigation of the financial affairs of the town, the accounts of the officers and of each and all of the bills. and *324accounts audited and allowed by the officers of the town during the year 1896. The persons named as constituting, the town" board were George W. Smith, supervisor; James B. Curley, town clerk, and Francis B. Taylor, Eustace H. Wheeler and George W.…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Fitzsimmons v. . City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Matter of Taxpayers of PlattsburghNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- In re EngelbrechtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Ghiglione v. MarshAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- In re Town of EastchesterNew York Supreme Court · 1889
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- Matter of RichardsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1928
- Town of Putnam Valley v. SlutzkyNew York Court of Appeals · 1940
- In re Foote, New York County Courts1927
- In re Investigation of the Financial AffairsNew York Supreme Court · 1908
- In re LowAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
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