Matter of Senior v. . Boyle
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department entered October 26, 1917, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the board of elections of the city of New York to print upon the official ballots the names of petitioners as candidates for the office of coroner for the borough of Brooklyn, to be voted for at the general election of 1917. The facts, so far as…
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department entered October 26, 1917, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the board of elections of the city of New York to print upon the official ballots the names of petitioners as candidates for the office of coroner for the borough of Brooklyn, to be voted for at the general election of 1917. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The office of coroner prior to the Constitution of 1894, which took effect on January…
1Opinion of the CourtPound, J.
“ The coroner’s is also a very ancient office at the common law” (1 Blackstone, 346), dating.from an ordinance of the year 1194 or before then. (1 Pollock & Maitland [2d ed.], 534.) The principal duty of the coroner is to hold an inquisition, with the assistance of a jury, over the body of any person who may have come to a violent death in his county. The office and power of a coroner are “ principally judicial.” (1 Blackstone, 348; People v. Jackson, 191 N. Y. 293.) Notwithstanding the ancient and dignified nature of the office, modern ideas of efficient administration of criminal justice…
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