Hankins v. Mayor of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of New York, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon an order dismissing plaintiff’s complaint on trial.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of New York, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon an order dismissing plaintiff’s complaint on trial. The complaint alleged in substance that the board of county canvassers for the city and county of New York, by a resolution of said board, passed May 30, 1870, designated the New York Official Railway News, a newspaper of which plaintiff was the proprietor, as a paper in which the results of an election held in said city and county May 17, 1870, should be published, and authorized…
1Per curiam
The general laws of the State make provision for the election of county and State officers, including the canvass of the votes by the inspectors of election and the several boards of canvassers, the certifying the result and the publication by the boards of county canvassers of their determination. Boards of county canvassers are created and organized, not for a merely local purpose but to execute in part and in some of its details a general law of the State, in the due execution of which every part of the State and every citizen has an interest.
The board, although composed of town officers,…
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