The People v. . Simeon Draper

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1857-06-05

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This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, sitting in the first district. *Page 534 The complaint is in substance an information in the nature of a quo warranto . Its general object is to obtain a judgment upon the right of the defendants' to execute the offices of "commissioners of police," to which they have been appointed pursuant to a statute passed at the last session of the legislature. The relator, Fernando Wood, claims that he,…

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