People Ex Rel. Coffey v. Democratic General Committee
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 5, 1900, reversing an order of Special .Term granting a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendant to place the name of the relator upon its membership roll and to restore him to the rights and privileges pertaining to membership in the Democratic general committee of Kings county.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 5, 1900, reversing an order of Special .Term granting a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendant to place the name of the relator upon its membership roll and to restore him to the rights and privileges pertaining to membership in the Democratic general committee of Kings county. At a primary election held in September, 1899, the relator was duly elected a member of the Democratic general committee of Kings county and afterwards duly qualified by paying the prescribed…
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, Ch. J.
The fundamental question in' this case is whether a member of the general committee of a county may be removed from office as a member of the committee. The answer to it depends upon the construction now to be given to the Primary Election Law (Chapter 473 of the Laws of 1899, vol. II), section first of which, in declaring the application of the act, says: “ It shall be controlling / (1) on the methods of enrolling the voters * * *; (2) on primary elections * * *; (3) on party conventions * * *; (4) on the choice * * * of political committees and on the conduct of political…
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