People ex rel. Russell v. Canvassers of Albany County
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the Albany special term restraining hoard of county canvassers from canvassing an election return, and refusing a mandamus to compel them to canvass another return.
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Appeal from an order of the Albany special term restraining hoard of county canvassers from canvassing an election return, and refusing a mandamus to compel them to canvass another return. The annual election, at which a state senator was to he ■ elected for the seventeenth senatorial district, consisting of the county of Albany, was held on November 8, .188?, The three inspectors of election, of and for the eleventh election district, on the evening of the election made two returns of the result of the election, by which it appeared that Norton Chase, the Democratic candidate, received, in…
1Opinion of the CourtLandon, P. J.
The inspectiorsof election for the eleventh district of Watervliet did, at the close of the election, make and sign two original statements of the result of the election in that district, respecting the votes *22cast for the office of senator. One of these statements-they delivered to the town clerk and one to the county clerk to be filed. They ought to have delivered one of these original statements to the supervisor of the town, but they failed to do so. Six days thereafter, two of the inspectors made and signed what purported to be a copy of these original statements, but differing from them…
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- Morgan v. QuackenbushNew York Supreme Court · 1856
- State ex rel. Metcalf v. GarescheSupreme Court of Missouri · 1877
- People ex rel. Deuchler v. Board of County CanvassersNew York Supreme Court · 1882
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