New York Court of Appeals

In the Matter of the Application of Simon Fleischmann, Respondents, for a Peremptory Writ of Mandamus Against…

February 27, 1923235 N.Y. 84

Summary

The Court affirmed the lower court's order, holding that the Buffalo Board of Education possessed both express and implied authority to employ counsel to protect its statutory rights and that the lawyers' fees were a lawful expense payable from the board's education funds.