In re the Proposed Inc. of Village of Lynbrook
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
' Appeal by Joseph D. Cornell from a decision of the County Court of the county of Nassau, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 24tli day of August, 1910, sustaining an election held on the 16 th day of July, 1.910.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
The general statutory provisions relating to the incorporation of villages are contained in the Village Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 64; Laws of 1909, chap. 64). They are quite simple, but laxity in the observance thereof has given rise to this controversy.
*488It would appear that in the early part of 1910 certain freeholders ■ of the town of Hempstead desired to incorporate a village within its territory, to be known as the village of Lynbrook. No claim is here made that, the proceedings were not regularly Conducted down to the time when it became the duty óf the town .clerk to give notice…
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