New York Supreme Court September 15, 1857 (Lowber v. Mayor of New York)

Roosevelt, J.

—A motion is made on behalf of the comptroller, as the chief financial officer of the city, and as a citizen and tax-payer, and one of the members of the corporate body denominated the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, the ulti*327mate effect of which is to obtain a perpetual stay of proceedings on a judgment for about $200,000, entered up, as he in substance alleges, by a quasi