In re Board of Canvassers
New York Supreme Court
Application by Henry T. Hoyes for mandamus to the board of canvassers Chemung county to reconvene and re-estimate the vote of the county.
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Application by Henry T. Hoyes for mandamus to the board of canvassers Chemung county to reconvene and re-estimate the vote of the county. It appeared that the county clerk refused to receive the returns from some of the election districts in the city of Elmira, on the ground that the inspectors, when they met immediately after the closing of the polls, and made and signed their statement of the result of the election, did not attach thereto sample' ballots of each kind voted with an indorsement stating the number of ■each kind voted. Thereupon, some of the inspectors and supervisors of…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The petitioner prays for a peremptory writ of mandamus to the board of canvassers of Chemung county, directing them to reconvene and re-estimate the vote of the county upon candidate for representative in •congress. He alleges that the said board erroneously estimated said vote from the sample ballots attached to the statement, with the indorsements thereon of the number cast, and disregarded the original statement of votes made by the board of inspectors; and that this occurred in six election districts in the •city of Elmira. Unless the petitioner shows his right to this writ upon the…
2Cited by1 opinion
- People ex rel. Noyes v. Board of CanvassersNew York Supreme Court · 1891