Williams v. Rensselaer County Board of Elections

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Pennock, J.), entered November 5, 1984 in Rensselaer County, which granted the application of Thomas V. Kenney, Jr., for an order directing the County of Rensselaer to pay him counsel fees for representing respondent Thomas M. Monahan, Jr., in this proceeding.

The 1983 election for Town Councilman in the Town of East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, hinged on whether two emergency paper ballots should be opened and counted. Resolution of that issue fell to the county’s Board of Elections. Its two commissioners, Thomas M. Monahan, Jr., and…