People Ex Rel. Hotchkiss v. . Smith
New York Court of Appeals
Oeoss-appeals from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered September 19, 1912, which modified and as modified affirmed as matter of law and not in the exercise of discretion, an order of Special Term providing that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue directing the defendants, composing the board of elections of Putnam county, to disregard as unconstitutional and void certain provisions of the Election Law.
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Oeoss-appeals from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered September 19, 1912, which modified and as modified affirmed as matter of law and not in the exercise of discretion, an order of Special Term providing that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue directing the defendants, composing the board of elections of Putnam county, to disregard as unconstitutional and void certain provisions of the Election Law. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. J. Hampden Dougherty for Empire State Democracy, intervenor. Albert S.…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
The petitioner Hotchkiss, who alleges that .he is the provisional chairman in and for the state of Hew York for the Hational Progressive party, and the petitioner Fish, who alleges that he is the chairman of the Putnam county committee of said party, and each alleging that said party is a new political party, organized and existing throughout the United States, and that it intends to cause nominations to be made by petition, among others, for county officers for Putnam county and member of assembly for said county so as to entitle its party ticket to be printed in a separate column upon the…
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