People Ex Rel. Strough v. Board of County Canvassers
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of, the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, made April 24,1894, which reversed an order of Special Term granting a motion, for a peremptory writ of mandamus. The nature of the proceeding and the facts, so far as. material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of, the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, made April 24,1894, which reversed an order of Special Term granting a motion, for a peremptory writ of mandamus. The nature of the proceeding and the facts, so far as. material, are stated in the opinion. The hoard of supervisors of Jefferson county had no power to change the school commissioners’ districts of Jefferson county, and the act passed by them at their session in 1892 is absolutely void and of no effect whatever. (Laws of 1856, chap. 179; Laws of 1864,. chap. 555; Laws of 1883, chap.…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The relator by this proceeding has sought to compel a re-canvass of the votes cast at the election held in November, 1893, for school commissioner of the third school commissioner’s district, in the county of Jefferson. His object is thereby to secure his election as a school commissioner; which would be accomplished, he alleges, if those votes were canvassed which were cast in the school district as its boundaries were fixed prior to 1892. In that year the board of supervisors of Jefferson county, at their annual meeting, undertook to change the boundaries of the different school…
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