Gould v. Village of Seneca Falls
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Village of Seneca Falls and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Special Term arid entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Seneca on the 23d day of September, 1909, granting a temporary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The order appealed from should be affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.
The action was brought for a permanent injunction on the ground that the special election, at which the proposition to establish water works and to issue bonds was voted upon, was illegally conducted and void, and, therefore, such bonds would be invalid; The real question involved is the right of women to vote at such election. We think it must be said that there were hundreds of women in the village who were possessed of the qualification to vote, except on account of their sex. None of them…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People ex rel. Peene v. CarpenterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
- People ex rel. Dillon v. MoirNew York Supreme Court · 1908
- Village of Canandaigua v. HayesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904