In re People
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Milo R. Maltbie, as chamberlain of the city of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 23d day of February, 1918, granting relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The question involved upon this appeal is the right of the Treasurer of the State of New York to have paid to him the moneys paid into court, and remaining for the period of twenty years in the hands of the chamberlain of the city of New York. The aggregate of said moneys is about $600,000. They were paid by the public administrator of the county of New York on the adjustment of his accounts into the treasury of the city of New York to the credit of the account of intestate estates.
Section 44 of the State Finance Law provides as follows: “ Whenever any sum of money, 'paid into court,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People v. KeenanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
- People v. . KeenanNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
- People v. KeenanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
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