Deane v. Board of Supervisors of Greene County

—Want of time prevents the preparation of a formal opinion, and I content myself with this memorandum.

The facts are as follows: The board of supervisors of Greene county, acting as county canvassers, at its annual meeting in 1882, decided that William Iiortz, and not Andrew H. Getty, had been elected coroner of Greene county, and gave to him the certificate of election. In reaching the conclusion that Kortz and not Getty was chosen, the board refused to count and allow to Getty certain ballots on which his name ivas printed with a different middle letter, on the ground that it had no power to…