Potter v. Town of Greenwich
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment in favor of tbe plaintiff, entered upon the trial ’ of tliis action by the court without a jury, and from a judgment entered upon an order overruling a demurrer to the second and third causes of action set forth in the complaint. The action was brought upon certain bonds issued by the defendant to aid in the construction of a railroad.
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Appeal from a judgment in favor of tbe plaintiff, entered upon the trial ’ of tliis action by the court without a jury, and from a judgment entered upon an order overruling a demurrer to the second and third causes of action set forth in the complaint. The action was brought upon certain bonds issued by the defendant to aid in the construction of a railroad. In the nrst cause of action set forth in the complaint the facts attending the issue of the bonds and the plaintiffs acquisition thereof were fully stated. The second and third causes of action were as follows: “ For a further and…
1Opinion of the Court
Rumset, J.:
The case shows that in March, 1871, an adjudication was made, under the authority of chapter 907, Laws of 1869, by the county judge of Washington county, in which it was recited that a petition had been presented to him under the act, setting forth certain *329facts required by it and asking that tbe bonds of the town may be created and issued in the manner specified in it to the amount of $40,000, and invested in the second mortgage bonds of the Greenwich and Johnsonville Railroad Company, at eighty cents on the dollar, and adjudging that the allegations in the petition are proved,…
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