Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Edwin Duffey, as Commissioner of Highways of the State of New York, Appellant, for a Peremptory Writ of Mandamus against John J. Clark, as County Treasurer of Onondaga County, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1916-10-24
Citations: 219 N.Y. 562
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Edwin Duffey, as Commissioner of Highways of the State of New York, Appellant, for a Peremptory Writ of Mandamus against John J. Clark, as County Treasurer of Onondaga County, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 219
Pages: 562–563

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Edwin Duffey, as Commissioner of Highways of the State of New York, Appellant, for a Peremptory Writ of Mandamus against John J. Clark, as County Treasurer of Onondaga County, Respondent.
Matter of Buffey v. Clark,, 173 App. Div. 919, 1002, affirmed.
(Argued October 4, 1916;
decided October 24, 1916.)
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered May 28, 1916, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the county treasurer of Onondaga county to pay a draft drawn by the commissioner of highways to P. H. Murray, contractor, for $3,855.94, representing the final payment on account of the contract for the construction of the county highway known as No. 670, situate in the town of Salina, Onondaga county, N. Y., and alleged to be the remainder of the contract price due and owing from the county in the first instance, but ultimately chargeable to the said town, as the final payment on account of the contract price for the improvement of said highway: There was no controversy as to the facts involved, the question being whether the county of Onondaga in the first instance, and the town of Salina ultimately, were liable for the amount of said draft.
jWgburt E. Woodbury, Attorney-General (Edmund H. Lewis of counsel), for appellant.
Bay B. Smith for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs, no opinion.
Concur: Hiscock, Chase, Cuddeback, Hogan, Cardozo and Pound, JJ. Absent: Willard Bartlett, Ch. J.