People ex rel. Guernsey v. Somers
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, James J. Guernsey, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Oneida on the 16th day of October, 1911, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Oneida Special Term, dismissing an alternative writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
The following is the opinion of Purcell, J.:
Purcell, J.:
The history and facts out of which the proceeding arose, stated as briefly'as possible, are the following:
On the 30th day of December, 1909, a majority of the Republican members of the board of supervisors of Oneida county, pursuant to the provisions of section 20 of the Comity Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 11; Laws of 1909, chap. 16) designated the Rome Tri-Weekly Republican, a newspaper owned and published by the relator, as a paper to publish the Session Laws and Concurrent Resolutions of the Legislature for the year 1910, and on the same…
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