Matter of Dowling
New York Court of Appeals
Cross-appeals by all parties to this proceeding, including the intervenor, each from some part of an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first ■ judicial department, entered July 1, 1916, which reversed an order of the New York Special Term dated June 30, 1916, dismissing the petition of Robert E. Dowling and others on the merits, and which order of the Appellate Division also declared the apportionment as set forth in chapter 313 of the Laws of 1916…
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Cross-appeals by all parties to this proceeding, including the intervenor, each from some part of an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first ■ judicial department, entered July 1, 1916, which reversed an order of the New York Special Term dated June 30, 1916, dismissing the petition of Robert E. Dowling and others on the merits, and which order of the Appellate Division also declared the apportionment as set forth in chapter 313 of the Laws of 1916 invalid so far as it provides for fifty-one senators, and which order of the Appellate Division also declared said…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
The Constitution of 1894 divided the state into fifty districts to be called senate districts, numbered from 1 to 50 inclusive. (Constitution State of New York, art.’3, § 3.) It also provides (Article 3, § 4): “An enumeration of the inhabitants of the State shall be taken under the direction of the Secretary of State, during the months of May and June, in the year one thousand nine hundred and five, and in the same months every tenth year thereafter; and the said districts shall be so altered by the Legislature at the first regular session after the return of every enumeration, that each…
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