Legal Opinion
Dollard v. Bowdoin
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 27, 1933PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtBonynge, J.
As this application, designed to establish the results of a village election, is submitted for decision, learned savants release the disturbing information that the average of rural intelligence is below that of the urban centers. (See Proceedings of American Eugenics Society, May 13, 1933.) The law, with a nice respect for the feelings of bucolic voters, recognizes no such distinction and hence the validity of a ballot cast in a village election is determined by the same tests that are applied to those cast by the supermen of the metropolitan area. (Election Law, §§ 100, 190; People ex rel.…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- People Brown v. . the Bd. of Supervisors of Suffolk Cty.New York Court of Appeals · 1915
- In re GarvinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
- People Ex Rel. March v. . BeamNew York Court of Appeals · 1907
- People Ex Rel. Simons v. KnickerbockerNew York Court of Appeals · 1929
- People ex rel. Simons v. KnickerbockerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1929
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- Haskell v. HannahNew York Supreme Court · 1946