Jackson v. Britt
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, J. Gabriel Britt and others, composing the board of elections, etc., from an order of the County Court of Kings county, made on the 21st day of September, 1911, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Carr J.:
The appellants, who constitute the board of elections of the city of New York, appeal from an order of the County Court of Kings *88county which directed the issuance of a writ of peremptory mandamus against them requiring them to. enroll the respondent Abraham Jackson as a Republican on the enrollment- books of the Republican party in the eighteenth election district of the first Assembly district of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings. The proceeding was brought under section 70 of the Election Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 17; Laws of 1909, chap. 22). The papers on which the applicant…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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