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Matter of Folks

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 23, 1909
134 App. Div. 376 (N.Y. App. Div. 1909)

Summary

In Matter of Folks (134 App. Div. 376) it was held that it is always a question of good faith as to whether or not the particular persons nominated to fill up the ticket or the petitioners are in sympathy with the movement.

Summary of this case from Matter of Trosk v. Cohen

Opinion

October 23, 1909.

Present — INGRAHAM, LAUGHLIN, CLARKE, HOUGHTON and SCOTT, JJ.


The court is clearly of the opinion that when a body of voters meet together for the purpose of inaugurating a movement to nominate an independent candidate for election, and a committee is appointed which adopts an emblem and a name, and subsequently files petitions naming a candidate for the head of the ticket, and a committee is appointed to have charge of the canvass and nominations, the emblem and name adopted by that committee and by the persons representing it are to be used and to be considered as belonging to that movement. It then becomes a question of good faith as to whether or not the particular persons nominated to fill up that ticket are the ones in sympathy with the movement. And those who are nominated by those in sympathy with the movement to go on the other places on the ticket are the ones the board of elections should recognize as the ones to be included in the ticket. And that is the only way in which the spirit of the Election Law can be enforced.

Mr. Hearst is running as an independent candidate for mayor. He is opposed by the regular organization of the Democratic party and by the regular organization of the Republican party. When there is a contest as to two certificates signed by different nominators, the preferences of the committee in charge of the general ticket should have great weight in determining who shall be the candidates in the same column. To hold that a certificate first filed with the board of elections nominating candidates of another party who are in opposition to the general ticket on which they desire to be placed must be adopted merely because it was first filed would violate the whole spirit of the Election Law and the system thereby created.

The orders appealed from should be affirmed.


Orders affirmed.


Summaries of

Matter of Folks

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 23, 1909
134 App. Div. 376 (N.Y. App. Div. 1909)

In Matter of Folks (134 App. Div. 376) it was held that it is always a question of good faith as to whether or not the particular persons nominated to fill up the ticket or the petitioners are in sympathy with the movement.

Summary of this case from Matter of Trosk v. Cohen
Case details for

Matter of Folks

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of RALPH FOLKS. In the Matter of LINDEN BATES, JR

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Oct 23, 1909

Citations

134 App. Div. 376 (N.Y. App. Div. 1909)
119 N.Y.S. 71

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