People ex rel. Van Sickle v. Austin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court, and attested the 13th day of April, 1897, directed to Jacob O. Austin and others, composing the election board of the town of Minisink, commanding them to certify and return to the clerk of the county of Orange all and singular their proceedings had in conducting the annual town meeting held in the town of Minisink, in the county of Orange, on the 2d day of March, 1897.
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
' The charge made by the petition of the relator is that the annual town meeting, held in the town of'Minisinlr, was illegal in its result announcéd hy the election board, because the polls Were not ojien . during the requisite time, in that the polls were not opened at sunrise and kept continuously open until sunset. ■ And reference is made to the statute, which provides that: “ Town meetings shall be kept open for the purposes of voting in the- daytime only, between the rising and setting of the sun.” (Laws of 1890, chap. 569, § 29.) It appears that the polls. were opened at…
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