Proskin v. May

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed and the disposition at Special Term reinstated.

It is true that in the face of the affirmative finding by both lower courts that the remaining 104 signatures were valid, the fraud and irregularities found by Special Term and affirmed at the Appellate Division with respect to the 116 invalid signatures cannot in this instance support an inference that *830similar infirmities existed as to other signatures on the petition. Nonetheless Special Term found that because of its magnitude, fraud and irregularity so "permeated” the petition as a whole…