In re Norton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the applicant, James Norton, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of. Queens on the 24th day of October, 1898, denying said applicant’s motion for an order requiring the clerk of the county of Queens to accept and file, as of October 14, 1898, the certificate of nomination of the applicant as a candidate for the office of Senator in the second senatorial district.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The moving papers show that the petitioner.was duly nominated by a convention of the Democratic party, assembled for that purpose, as a- candidate for State Senator in the second senatorial district of this State, to be voted for at the coming general election to be held on the eighth day of November then next ensuing. The county of Queens constitutes said senatorial district.. Section 58 of the General Election Law (Laws of 1896, chap. 909) requires that a certificate of nomination for this office shall “ be filed with the clerk of the .county in which ” the electors voted for such…
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