Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Dayton Hedges, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1918-05
Citations: 184 A.D. 901
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Dayton Hedges, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 184
Pages: 901–901

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Dayton Hedges, Appellant.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs. The defendant paid the principal and withheld the interest incident to it, while the law demanded him to pay. The withholding was not an inadvertence, but an unlawful insistence of ownership. It does not require a demand to convert a rightful possession into a wrongful holding, when a public officer, in breach of the demand which the statute puts upon him, keeps and retains as his own the funds of a town. Jenks, P. J., Thomas, Mills, Putnam and Kelly, JJ., concurred.
See Town Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 62; Laws of 1909, chap. 63), § 91, as amd. by Laws of 1909, chap. 491.— [Rep.