New York Court of Appeals November 11, 1873 (People Ex Rel. Rogers v. . Spencer)

The jurisdiction of the county judge to exercise the authority conferred by the act under which the proceedings were instituted for bonding the town of Greenwood depended upon the presentation to him, in the first instance, of a petition in conformity with the act. (Laws 1869, chap. 907, as amended by chap. 925, Laws 1871.