Greenwood v.Curran

Petitioner filed with the Secretary of State an independent nominating petition purporting to nominate him as the candidate of the Independent Efficiency Party for the *495office of member of Congress of the United States for the First Congressional District of the State of New York at the general election to be held on November 4, 1952. Objections filed by the respondent Hogland, later supplemented by specifications, included in part the claim that the said nominating petition “ failed to contain not less than three thousand (3,000) signatures and, therefore, under the provisions of the Election…