In re Schwager

The appellant, being a candidate for the office of alderman, in the nineteenth assembly district in the city of Hew York, applied to the board of police, commissioners to prepare, print, and distribute through the « district two sets of ballots containing liis name as an aldermanic candidate to be voted at the election in Hovember in the year 1890. They conceded the right to have the name placed on one set of the ballots, but beyond that denied it. To secure compliance with his application to place the name upon two sets of the ballots he applied upon notice for a peremptory writ of mandamus.…