Two Decisions Against Knapp

New York, 1895

He Must Issue the Bonds of Long Island city.

Justice Gaynor on Saturday granted the application of John C. Sheehan for a peremptory mandamus to compel Treasurer Lucien Knapp, of Long Island city, to attest and deliver to the purchasers certain bonds issued and sold to raise money to pay for work done in the construction of trunk sewers by Mr. Sheehan. The agreement with the improvement commissioners was that Contractor Sheehan was to be paid in installments. When the first installment was due, the bonds were issued and some of them signed by the mayor and city clerk and sold. Treasurer Knapp refused to deliver them, however, and the present proceeding was brought.

Justice Gaynor also granted the application of James A. Stevenson for a peremptory mandamus to compel the city treasurer to sell him three $500 water ponds at not less than par and with accrued interest and to take in payment warrants 1,160, 1,186 and 1,204, issued by Mayor Sanford.

The mayor issued the warrants in payment for work done on the conduits in Long Island City by Stevenson and directed that the warrants be taken in payment for the water bonds. This Treasurer Knapp failed to do, whereupon Mr. Stevenson made his application.


Special Term of Court

A special term of the Supreme Court will be held at the Court House in Long Island City on Monday. Judge Pratt will preside. The calendar is as follows:

Brucel vs Straube, Croly vs O'Brien, Edmiston vs Gladding, Flower vs Claven, Goodale vs Goodale, Gleason vs Sanford, Hudson vs Van Haven, Hartman vs Hoppe, Haff vs Worth, Long Island railroad company vs Long Island City, Muhlenberg vs Muhlenberg, Morgan vs Morgan, Newell vs Pomeroy, Peterson vs Harris, Rauscher vs Schmid, Stevens vs Stevens, Thorseu vs Gatti, Terry vs Long Island City.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 1.