In re Farbstein

These two consolidated proceedings have been initiated, one by petitioner-appellant Farbstein, incumbent Congressman and candidate in the Democratic primary election, and the other by petitioner-appellant Tolub, enrolled member of the Liberal Party, to void a designating petition filed in behalf of one Gottehrer, an enrolled Democrat, for the same office in the Liberal primary election, and to void the substitution by Gottehrer ’s committee on vacancies of respondent-respondent Farber for Gottehrer, after the latter’s declination. The facts were stipulated at Special Term. A chronological…