People ex rel. Brink v. Way
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Eugene Way and others, composing the Board of Inspectors of Election in Election District No. 4 of the Town of Ulster, Ulster County, New York, and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Rensselaer Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 23d day of November, 1903, directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, J.:
The relator Brink and the defendant McNamee were respectively the Republican and Democratic candidates for the office of supervisor of the town of Ulster, Ulster county, at the biennial town election held with the general election November 3, 1903.
The town of Ulster is composed of four election districts. The returns from said election districts were canvassed by the justices of the peace and town clerk of said town and said j ustices of the peace and town clerk found that 333 Votes had been cast for Brink and 334 votes for McNamee.
*84., According to the returns filed from the fourth…
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