George S. Chatfield Co. v. Reeves
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Alternative writ of mandamus requiring the respondent to countersign and deliver to the petitioner an order for $9,000, in payment for land purchased by the board of education of the city of Waterbury for school purposes, issued by and returnable to the Superior Court in New Haven County, where, upon a trial to the court, Williams, J., the petitioner was nonsuited for having failed to make out a prima facie case, from which judgment it appealed. No error.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The relator claims that the city of Waterbury owes it $9,000 for a tract of land sold and conveyed by it to the city. The charter of the city prescribes the method by which payments are to be made out of its treasury. The machinery thus provided includes the counter-signature by its mayor of an order drawn by the city clerk upon the city treasurer. It is charged that the defendant, as the city’s mayor, in violation of his duty as such officer, neglected and refused to perform the ministerial duty of countersigning an. order in favor of the relator for said sum of $9,000 duly and regularly…
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