Case ID: thomp-cook_3/html/0794-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mullin, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

People ex rel. Sutton et al. v. Franklin.
    
      Railroad aid bonds— Residence—taxpayer’s name signed hy another—signature hy initials.
    
    The name of a tax payer was signed by another person to a petition for bonding a town in aid of a railroad. Held, that the presence of the tax payer at the signing must be proved affirmatively in the proceedings to bond, it cannot be inferred. People v. Smith, 45 N. Y. 773.
    Thirty persons signed initials instead of their given names to the petition. Held, they could not be counted in estimating the number who consented to bonding, no proof being given that they were the persons whose names were upon the assessment roll.
    Certiorari to review proceedings before a county judge to bond the town of Romulus, Seneca county.
   Mullin, P. J.

The head-note gives the material points passed upon in the opinion.

Decision of county judge reversed.