Legal Opinion

Gilfillan v. Commissioners of Election

New York Supreme Court

Decided October 27, 1924PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Crosby, J.:

This is an application, in which William P. Brennan joins, for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the' Erie county board of election commissioners to print the names of Gilfillan and Brennan as candidates for the office of justice of the Supreme Court, in the line of the so-called Progressive party on the voting machine at the coming election.

There is no dispute about the facts, The Progressive party has *629secured and filed the required number of petitions to entitle its candidates to be voted for at said election. The candidates here petitioning have been duly nominated as the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Matter of Hopper v. . BrittNew York Court of Appeals · 1911
  2. Matter of CallahanNew York Court of Appeals · 1910

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Matter of Callaghan v. VoorhisNew York Court of Appeals · 1929
  2. Richardson v. CaputoSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1965
  3. Cannizzaro v. TubmanNew York Supreme Court · 1960
  4. Matter of Lynn v. NicholsNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
  5. In re SullivanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925

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