Case ID: ny_93/html/0635-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Danforth, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Claim of the Bank of Monroe, Appellant, v. The State of New York, Respondent.
    (Argued April 19, 1883 ;
    decided June 26, 1883.)
    This was an appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, affirming a decision of the Board of Audit refusing to allow a claim against the State for an award of the Canal Commissioners.
    It is not reported, as a majority of the court did not concur in the opinion.
    
      James B. Perkins for appellant.
    
      Leslie W. Russell, Attorney-General, for respondent.
   Danforth, J.,

reads for affirmance; Finch, J., concurs; Rapallo, J., concurs in result; Andrews, J., concurs on the ground that there was evidence that the award was obtained by fraud and collusion between the officers of the State and the parties prosecuting the claim ; Rhger, Ch. J., and Earl, J., dissent; Miller, J"., absent.

Judgment affirmed.