Cobb v. Ramsdell
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Monroe county. Action by Amos H. Cobb and Alfred Potter against Jeremiah S. Ramsdell and others. The complaint was dismissed, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtCorlett, J.
In January, 1886, this action was brought under the tax-payers’ act. Chapter 531, Laws 1881. The gravamen of the complaint was that *94the defendant George A. Fellows, as overseer of the poor of the town of Perinton, in the county of Monroe, illegally expended large sums of money for the relief of the poor of the town, and that in many cases he expended more than the sum of $10, without an order allowing the same by a justice of the peace, or one of the superintendents of the poor of the county. The action was tried at an equity term in the county of Monroe, and in May, 1889, the complaint was…
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