People ex rel. Nash v. Board of Supervisors
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Board of Supervisors of Onondaga County, from an order and judgment of the Supreme Court, made at the Onondaga Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 28th day of January, 1914, directing that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue to the defendants. The order was made upon the report of a referee appointed to hear and determine the issues.
1Opinion of the Court
All concurred.
The following is the opinion of the referee:
Irving G-. Vann, Referee:
In April, 1911, three residents of the county of Onondaga, for convenience called the complainants, presented to the *90Governor certain charges against Frederick Wyker as sheriff of said county, and asked for his removal from office. Mr. Wyker filed an answer denying the charges and the issue thus joined was sent to a commissioner,1 who took the evidence and reported the facts, and upon the evidence thus taken and the report so made the sheriff was removed.
John F. Nash, Esq., a member of the' Onondaga bar, was…
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