Goetcheus v. . Matthewson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, in favor of defendants, entered upon an order denying a motion for a new trial and directing judgment upon a nonsuit ordered at the Circuit. (Reported below, 5 Lans., 214; 58 Barb., 152.) This action was brought against defendants to recover damages for an alleged, unlawful rejection by them, as inspectors of election, of plaintiff’s vote.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, in favor of defendants, entered upon an order denying a motion for a new trial and directing judgment upon a nonsuit ordered at the Circuit. (Reported below, 5 Lans., 214; 58 Barb., 152.) This action was brought against defendants to recover damages for an alleged, unlawful rejection by them, as inspectors of election, of plaintiff’s vote. The facts in the case were, substantially, as follows: The defendants, in the year 1868, were inspectors of election for the second election district of the town…
1Opinion of the Court
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The second article of the Constitution of this State, which was in force when the election in question was held, prescribes who of its citizens and inhabitants shall be entitled to vote at an election to be held therein for all officers that are elected by the people, and provides that laws may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage all persons who have been or may be convicted of bribery, larceny, or of any infamous crime; and for depriving every person…
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