People ex rel. Burger v. Blair
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal hy the defendants, Benjamin F. Blair and others, commissioners of election, comprising the board of elections of the city of Brooklyn, in action No. 1, 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 Kings on the 13th day of October, 1897, directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus.
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Appeal hy the defendants, Benjamin F. Blair and others, commissioners of election, comprising the board of elections of the city of Brooklyn, in action No. 1, 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 Kings on the 13th day of October, 1897, directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus. Also, appeal by the relators, Anthony J. Burger and another, in action No. 2, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term, bearing date the 13th day of October, 1897, and entered in…
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
In this litigation the first and paramount question to be deter-' mined is whether, at the annual election of this year, coroners are to be elected for the various boroughs comprising the city of Hew York as it will be constituted on the 1st day of January, 1898. By section 1570 of the charter of the new city (Chap. 378, Laws of 1897) it is provided: “ Four coroners shall hereafter be elected in the borough of Manhattan, two in the borough of The.Bronx, two in the borough of Brooklyn, three in the borough of Queens and two in the borough of Richmond. They shall be elected in the…
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- In re the Trustees of the New York & Brooklyn BridgeNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
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- In re McNeileAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
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