In re Curtin v. Denton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, William Curtin, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 3d day of April, 1918, denying his motion to have declared void a certain petition filed in the office of the city clerk of Mount Vernon for the submission of certain local option questions to the voters of said city.
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
On May 22, 1917, chapter 624 of the Laws of that year became a law, known as the City Local Option Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 68). Its broad purpose was to declare what should constitute “ local option territory,” and to prescribe procedure for the submission of local option questions to qualified voters, and also to provide for submission to the qualified voters of the city of New York the question whether such city should become local option territory as all other cities of the State were declared to be. The third Tuesday in April of any year was established as the date of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People Ex Rel. Hotchkiss v. . SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
3Cited by1 opinion
- Haub v. Inspectors of ElectionNew York Supreme Court · 1984