In re Woodworth
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Seneca county. • Application by Hugh H. Woodworth and others for an order under Laws 1890, c. 262, § 13, directing the county clerk to print certain names on the official ballots. From the making of such an order, Duncan McArthur, as substitute for the county clerk, appeals.
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Appeal from special term, Seneca county. • Application by Hugh H. Woodworth and others for an order under Laws 1890, c. 262, § 13, directing the county clerk to print certain names on the official ballots. From the making of such an order, Duncan McArthur, as substitute for the county clerk, appeals. The principal questions involved in this appeal arise under the section mentioned, which reads as follows: “All certificates of nomination which are in apparent conformity with the provisions of this act shall be deemed to be valid, unless objections thereto shall be duly made in writing within…
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
Two rival Republican county conventions were held in Seneca •county in the year 1891. Por the purpose of identification, one of the conventions is designated in the record as the “Mongin Convention,” and the •other as the “Patterson Convention.” Each convention claimed to be genuine, and regularly organized. Each put in nomination candidates for county officers to be voted for by the electors of Seneca county at the general election in November, 1891, and each convention caused to be filed with the clerk of Seneca county a certificate of the nomination of its candidates in due form, as…
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