People ex rel. Republican & Journal Co. v. McCarthy
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 23d day of February, 1909, directed to John H. McCarthy and others, constituting the Bepublican members of the board of supervisors of the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York, and others, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of St. Lawrence all and singular their proceedings had in regard to the designation of a newspaper to publish the Session Laws and…
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Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 23d day of February, 1909, directed to John H. McCarthy and others, constituting the Bepublican members of the board of supervisors of the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York, and others, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of St. Lawrence all and singular their proceedings had in regard to the designation of a newspaper to publish the Session Laws and Concurrent Besolutions of the Legislature for the year 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
Chester, J. :
The Bepublican members of the board of supervisors of St. Lawrence county on November 24, 1908, designated the Oov/rier and Freeman, a Bepublican newspaper published at Potsdam in said county, to publish the Session Laws and Concurrent Besolutions for the year 1909. The Bepublican and Journal Company, which publishes the St. Lawrence Republiccm, a Bepublican newspaper published at Ogdensburg, has sued out this writ to determine the legality of such designation.
The designation was made under section 19 of the County Law (Laws of 1892, chap. 686, as amd. by Laws of 1898, chap. 349;…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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