Matter of Baird
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made February 12, 1894, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying an application for a writ of mandamus.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made February 12, 1894, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying an application for a writ of mandamus. On May 19, 1893, the petitioners procured a writ of mandamus to the supervisors of Kings county, which directed them “ to divide the said county of Kings into eighteen assembly districts, each of which shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory and each of which shall be made equal as to population so far as that is attainable, while making each district of convenient and…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
When this case was here on a former appeal (Board v. Supervisors, 138 N. Y. 95) we held that the board of supervisors of the county of Kings were required by the Constitution, when apportioning the assembly districts for the election of members of assembly from that county, to make the division equal as to population, as far as that was reasonably attainable, while making each district of convenient and contiguous territory and keeping the towns undivided. It was not claimed in defense of the apportionment then before us that there had been any attempt to comply with this rule. The legal…
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