156 N.Y.S. 1096 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1916
Even without special enactment, village and town boundary lines should be clearly fixed, so as to be easily recognized by the general public. (Dillon Mun. Corp. [5th ed.] § 352.) The corporate limits should not be a matter of deduction
This petition began: “We, the undersigned, a majority of the residents qualified to vote for town officers, and also the owners of a majority of value in real property of that territory not in a city or village, but adjoining the incorporated village of Patchogue, bounded and described as follows; * * * petition the Incorporated Village of Patchogue, N„ V., to extend its westerly boundaries so as to include the territory above described.” A verification as provided by the Code of Civil Procedure (§ 526) to such a petition did not comply with this special statutory requirement, especially where the body of the petition did not allege the jurisdictional
The board of trustees of Patchogue, therefore, could not he required, against their judgment, to submit to an election such a proposition to extend the village boundaries as was set out in this petition.
The order denying a -writ of peremptory mandamus is, therefore, affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.
Jenks, P. J., Thomas, Stapleton and Mills, JJ., concurred.
Order denying writ of peremptory mandamus affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.