Kinne v. City of Syracuse
New York Court of Appeals
This was a case agreed upon by Enos Kinne and the City of Syracuse, for the purpose of presenting for adjudication the question of the constitutionality of the 9th section of the act passed by the legislature on April 17, 1858. This act, by its title, purported to be “An act to amend the act to-revise the charter of the city of Syracuse.
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This was a case agreed upon by Enos Kinne and the City of Syracuse, for the purpose of presenting for adjudication the question of the constitutionality of the 9th section of the act passed by the legislature on April 17, 1858. This act, by its title, purported to be “An act to amend the act to-revise the charter of the city of Syracuse. The facts necessary to be stated, in order to present this question, are, that in 1857, the board of supervisors of the county of Onondaga, pursuant to the act passed in April of that year, requiring the formation of assembly districts, duly met and divided…
1Opinion of the CourtJames C. Smith, J.
It is conceded that, by the operation of § 9 of the act of April 17, 1858, the constitutionality of which is challenged by the defendant, a strip of land, about one mile wide and two miles long, containing two hundred and fifty inhabitants,, of whom fifty were voters, was transferred from the second to the third assembly district, in the county of Onondaga, as such districts were formed, by the board of supervisors of that county, in 1857. The question is, whether, by reason of such operation, that section is in violation of the injunction of the constitution, that the assembly districts,…
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