People Ex Rel. Platt v. . Rice
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, made September 27, 1894, which affirmed an order of Special Term adjudging defendants guilty of contempt and imposing a fine.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, made September 27, 1894, which affirmed an order of Special Term adjudging defendants guilty of contempt and imposing a fine. The defendants constituted the state board of canvassers, whose duty it was to canvass the returns from the various counties of the state of the votes cast therein at the election held in 1891. A dispute arose in Dutchess county over the election of senator for the fifteenth senatorial district. The county board of canvassers returned a certain statement of the result of the…
1Opinion of the CourtG-bay, J.
The statement of facts has been made thus full, in order that, by exhibiting the various proceedings and acts in some detail, the objections of the appellants may be at once more clearly understood and deprived of any seeming force. We think that the order of the Supreme Court was warranted by the facts and that that court could not very well have held otherwise with respect to the conduct of the defendants. That our decision could have been misunderstood, or understood by the appellants as they say it was, is difficult for us to believe. There was neither uncertainty, nor ambiguity, in the…
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