Wing v. Ryan

This is an appeal from an order of the Albany Special Term of the Supreme Court which denied petitioner’s application for a summary order under subdivision 3 of section 330 of the Election Law restraining respondents, comprising the board of elections of Albany county, from setting in motion the machinery for the election of a recorder of the city of Albany at the general election to be held next November. The petitioner is the chairman of the Albany County Republican Committee.

Questions of law only are involved. The office of recorder of Albany is a very ancient one and was created by the…