Beadle v. County of Orleans

Charles B. Wheeler,

Official Referee. This is a taxpayers’ action brought to restrain the collection of certain taxes levied in 1930 on all the taxable property of the town of Clarendon by the board of supervisors of Orleans county on the alleged ground said taxes are illegal.

The Bushwick Savings Bank is made party defendant because it holds certain bonds of the town of Clarendon issued to pay the cost of certain drainage improvements, to the payment of which with interest the taxes complained of were levied. The plaintiffs seek to have said bonds declared illegal and void, and the payment'of…