People ex rel. Smith v. York
New York Supreme Court
Application for mandamus against police commissioners.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAdam, J.
This is an application by a voter for an order
requiring the police board to strike out the word “ Democratic,” and to enter and insert in the place thereof the word “ Republican ” against the name of the applicant, Samuel W. Smith, on the original primary enrollment books of the Eighteenth election district, in the Twenty-fifth Assembly district of the borough of Manhattan, city of Hew York, or putting him in the same position as though no enrollment had been ma?de. It appears that the petitioner is a citizen about sixty years of age; that he is and always has been enrolled as a member of the…
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