People Ex Rel. Hirsh v. . Wood
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made December 2, 1895, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying relator’s application for a writ of peremptory mandamus. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The ticket of “ The Regular Democratic Party ” was illegally filled up and completed by the insertion of the names of the candidates of the Democratic party for state and judicial offices.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made December 2, 1895, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying relator’s application for a writ of peremptory mandamus. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The ticket of “ The Regular Democratic Party ” was illegally filled up and completed by the insertion of the names of the candidates of the Democratic party for state and judicial offices. (Laws of 1895, chap. 810 ; Fernbacher v. Roosevelt, 14 Misc. Rep. 199.) The provisions of the amended Ballot Law relative to…
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, Ch. J.
This appeal is from an order denying the relator’s motion for a writ of mandamus, requiring the county board of canvassers of Queens comity in canvassing the votes cast in the county at the last general election to reject from the count all votes cast for justices of the Supreme Court at the election, by means of or by voting the ticket of “ The Regular Democratic Party of Qneéns County,” for the reason that no nomination of any candidates for those offices was made by the party and that no vote for any candidates for those offices could legally be cast by the use of such…
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