People ex rel. Coffey v. Democratic General Committee
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Democratic General Committee of Kings County, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term, bearing date the 28th day of April, 1900, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendant to place upon the roll of its membership the name of the relator and to restore him to all the rights and privileges pertaining to the…
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Appeal by the defendant, The Democratic General Committee of Kings County, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term, bearing date the 28th day of April, 1900, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendant to place upon the roll of its membership the name of the relator and to restore him to all the rights and privileges pertaining to the office of member in the Democratic general committee of Kings county.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The petition alleges that the relator for many years has' been a voter in the ninth assembly district of the county of Kings; that the respondent committee is the general committee of the Democratic party in and for the county of Kings, created pursuant to the Primary Election Law (Chap. 473, Laws of 1899, amdg. chap. 179, Laws of 1898), and that the unit of .representation authorized by that .act, “ and as laid down by the rules and regulations of said General Committee, is the Assembly District; and that from each of the Assembly Districts in said Kings County as such '…
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