Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of The Clayton Company, Inc., Respondent, for an Order of Mandamus against Charles L. Craig, as Comptroller of the City of New York, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1924-05
Citations: 209 A.D. 801
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of The Clayton Company, Inc., Respondent, for an Order of Mandamus against Charles L. Craig, as Comptroller of the City of New York, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 209
Pages: 801–803

Head Matter:
First Department,
May, 1924.
In the Matter of the Application of The Clayton Company, Inc., Respondent, for an Order of Mandamus against Charles L. Craig, as Comptroller of the City of New York, Appellant.
Municipal corporations —• peremptory mandamus against comptroller of city of New York to compel payment of judgment against board of education —■ refusal to pay based on fact that appropriation for board of education was exhausted before obligation was incurred —• peremptory order affirmed.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the New York county clerk’s office December 20, 1923, granting a motion for a peremptory mandamus order.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. No opinion. Present— Dowling, Smith, Finch, McAvoy and Martin, JJ.; Finch, J., dissenting.