People ex rel. Garrett v. Ogden
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Jansen D. Ogden, from a judgment of the Court of Sessions of the county of Monroe in favor of the plaintiff, rendered on the 31st day of December, 1895, and docketed in the clerk’s office of the county of Monroe on the 11th day of February, 1896, affirming an order of filiátion rendered by two justices of the peace.
1Opinion of the Court
Follett, J.:
The towns of this State may have one or two overseers of the-poor, as the electors thereof shall determine. (Chap. 20, Gen. Laws; The Town Law,* §§ 12, 18; 1 R. S. [9th ed.] 727, 729.)
In 1894 the town of Greece, in the county of Monroe, had two. overseers of the poor, and May 15, 1894, one of them applied, pursuant to section 840 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to a justice of the peace of the town to inquire who was the father of a child likely to be born a bastard and chargeable to said town. The two overseers did not meet, and the application was the sole act of one of them.…
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