In re Luce

This is a proceeding brought to remove Alfred F. Beiter as supervisor of the town of Amherst, Erie county, under section 36 of the Public Officers Law, the claim being, in substance, that by being elected to Congress, and by accepting the office of Congressman, he has placed himself in a position where he is practically compelled to neglect his duties as supervisor. Specifically he is charged with being absent from three meetings of the town board (on March sixth, eighteenth and twentieth, respectively) and also from three meetings of the board of supervisors (on March fourteenth, seventeenth…