People ex rel. Strough v. Board of County Canvassers
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Jefferson county. Application by Perrin A. Strough against the board of county canvassers of Jefferson county for mandamus to compel defendant to recanvass the votes cast at the election in November, 1893, for; school commissioners of the third school commissioners’ district in the county of Jefferson. From an order directing that a peremptory writ issue, defendant appeals. Reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
Prior to 1892 the third commissioners’ district of Jefferson county comprised the towns of Alexandria, Cape Vincent, Clayton, Lyme, Orleans, Pamelia, and Theresa. At its annual meeting in 1892 the board of supervisors of that county, in pursuance of the provisions of chapter 414 of the Laws of 1883, divided the county, exclusive of the city of Watertown, into three school commissioners’ districts. By such division the third district was made to consist of the towns of Brownville, Cape Vincent, Clayton, Henderson, Hounsfleld, Lyme, and Orleans. The only question involved in this case, as to…
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