People ex rel. Stalter v. Lynch

At the annual village election held in 1925, defendant Snedeker was elected president of the village of Haverstraw, and acted as such until the month of August, 1925, when he resigned. The term of office for which he had been elected would have expired at noon on the first Monday after the third Tuesday of March, 1926. (Village Law, § 43, as amd. by Laws of 1915, chap. 323, and Laws of 1925, chap. 295; since amd. by Laws of 1926, chap. 391.)

On August 8, 1925, pursuant to section 61 of the Village Law, the board of trustees appointed defendant Lynch to fill the vacancy caused by Snedeker’s…