Tamney v. Atkins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Eugene Van Wagenen, town clerk, etc., and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Rensselaer Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 23d day of December, 1911, directing the counting of certain ballots upon the question of local option rejected by the board of inspectors as void.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
At the general town meeting of 1911 the electors of the town of New Paltz, Ulster county, upon a proper petition, voted upon the four propositions with respect to the sale of liquor in that town, as permitted by section 13 of the Liquor Tax Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 34 [Laws of 1909, chap. 39], as amd. by Laws of 1910, chap. 485).
The town contains two election districts and the inspectors of election in each of the districts determined that certain of the ballots were void, and refused to count them- upon any of the propositions submitted.
The vote upon the' first two propositions,…
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