In re Collins
The Superior Court of New York City
• Collins applied to the superior court for a mandamus requiring the inspector of elections of the first election district of the first assembly district in the city of Hew York, to register his name as a voter. He made an affidavit that he was the proprietor of a lighter, on which he and his family live, and that his business was the transportation of freight in the harbor.
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• Collins applied to the superior court for a mandamus requiring the inspector of elections of the first election district of the first assembly district in the city of Hew York, to register his name as a voter. He made an affidavit that he was the proprietor of a lighter, on which he and his family live, and that his business was the transportation of freight in the harbor. When not engaged in that work his lighter was moored at Pier Ho 5, East river, and he regarded that as his place of residence.'
1Opinion of the CourtFreedman, J.
Section 1 of article 2 of the constitution, provides that every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ten days, and. an inhabitant of the state one year next preceding any election, and for the last four months a resident of the county where he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote- at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elected by the people, but such citizen shall have been, for thirty days next preceding the election, a…
2Cited by3 opinions
- People ex rel. Driscoll v. BenderNew York Supreme Court · 1913
- Newman v. United States ex rel. FrizzellCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1915
- People v. GoldmackerNew York City Magistrates' Court · 1914