Robbins v. Woolcott

By the Court,

Mullin, J.

The plaintiff was supervisor of the town of Marcy, in the county of Oneida, in the year 1868, and the defendant was overseer of the poor of the same town during said year and also in the year 1862. The defendant, as such overseer, contracted with one Cutler, some time in the winter of 1862, to furnish maintenance to one Barret, a poor person, residing in said town, to an amount not exceeding $10. The defendant, as overseer, presented to the board of town auditors, in the fall of 1862, an account containing a charge of $10 for the support of said Barret. There is…