People ex rel. Pierce v. Parkhurst
New York Supreme Court
Motioh by plaintiff for an order directing that a writ of peremptory mandamus be issued commanding the defendants composing the election board, to reconvene and recount the ballots for the office of supervisor at the town meeting of the town of Richland, held on the 1st day of -March, 1898.
1Opinion of the CourtWright, J.
The defendant Lewis J. Macy was declared by the defendants, the election board, to have been duly elected supervisor.
The relator was a candidate for said office and urges that certain •errors were committed by the election board in counting the ballots, and that a legal count thereof would result in the election of himself, the relator. I will consider the issues respecting the ballots in dispute in the numerical and alphabetical order in which they are severally numbered or marked. ,
Ballot Ho. 3.
The relator, Mr. Pierce, contends that this ballot,' which the board rejected as void, should…
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