English v. Curran

The petitioners seek an order directing the Secretary of State to accept for filing a certificate filling the vacancy in the designation made by the Democratic county committee of the County of Schenectady for the office of State senator for the Thirty-eighth Senatorial District. The petitioners, John English and William L. Mayotte, are respectively the chairman and secretary of the said Democratic county committee and constitute the majority of the committee on vacancies named in designation petitions filed with the Secretary of State.

The facts here are undisputed. Following the…