Eaton v. Monahan

The petitioner, the Rensselaer County Republican nominee for Sheriff in the forthcoming election, moved this court at Special Term, Albany County, for an order invalidating the independent nominating petition of Thomas S. Winnieki for the same office. To afford the parties an opportunity to submit proof this court, on the authority of Matter of Doyle v. Supreme Ct. (286 App. Div. 469), ordered a trial to be held in Supreme Court, Rensselaer County. Trial was held on September 26,1972.

It was generally agreed at the trial that the Winnieki petition contained 2,180 signatures and that 1,500 are…