Legal Opinion

Carroll v. State

New York Court of Claims

Decided May 15, 1910Published

Claims by Edward Carroll, Jr., and others, against the State of New York, for services as stenographer. Judgment for claimants. Litigation arose between the state and the Consolidated Gas Company of the city of New York concerning the constitutionality of the so-called “80-cent gas statute.” The state, through the Attorney General, made a party to the litigation was called upon to defend the statute. In the defense of the suit, Atty.

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Claims by Edward Carroll, Jr., and others, against the State of New York, for services as stenographer. Judgment for claimants. Litigation arose between the state and the Consolidated Gas Company of the city of New York concerning the constitutionality of the so-called “80-cent gas statute.” The state, through the Attorney General, made a party to the litigation was called upon to defend the statute. In the defense of the suit, Atty. Gen. Mayer employed a special stenographer to take minutes and furnish copy. For this service the stenographer was paid, down to the close of Atty. Gen. Mayer’s…

1Opinion of the CourtRodenbeck, J.

This is a claim for $8,921.03 against the state, for services rendered by one of the claimants, Edward Carroll, Jr., as a stenographer in the suit brought in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by the Consolidated Gas Company of New York against Julius M. Mayer, as Attorney General, the State Commissioners of Gas and Electricity, and the city of New York and the district attorney of the county of New York, to test the constitutionality of the so-called eighty-cent gas statute. The claimant Carroll was selected as the stenographer in the litigation by the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. McDonald v. Mayor of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
  2. Chase v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  3. Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y. v. . DavenportNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
  4. O'Hara v. . State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
  5. Chase v. United StatesU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana · 1890

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