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Matter of Bentley

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
May 12, 1937
251 App. Div. 773 (N.Y. App. Div. 1937)

Opinion

May 12, 1937.

Appeal from Supreme Court, Rensselaer County.

Present — Hill, P.J., Rhodes, Crapser, Bliss and Heffernan, JJ.


A petition was filed with the town clerk of said town requesting the submission at the next general election of the question as to the sale of alcoholic beverages and a purported certified copy of said petition was filed by the town clerk with the board of elections of said county in an attempted compliance with the provisions of section 141 Alco. Bev. Cont. of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law which required the town clerk within five days from the filing of such petition in his office to file in the office of said board of elections a certified copy thereof. The appellant asserts that the town clerk failed to comply with the law in that the copy filed by him with the board of elections was not a true and correct certified copy of such petition. Section 144 Alco. Bev. Cont. of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law provides for a proceeding to test the validity, sufficiency and legality of any such petition "as though such petition were a certificate of nomination" under the provisions of the Election Law. Section 142 of the Election Law requires that written objection to any petition be filed with the officer or board with whom the original petition is filed within six days after the filing of the petition to which objection is made. Section 330 of the Election Law provides for the summary determination of any question of law or fact arising in such matters and limits the time within which a proceeding for judicial review must be instituted. So far as appears no such objection was filed by appellant and no proceeding was instituted by him and the time for so doing had expired before the present proceeding was commenced. The election having been held, the question here presented has become academic. Order unanimously affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.


Summaries of

Matter of Bentley

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
May 12, 1937
251 App. Div. 773 (N.Y. App. Div. 1937)
Case details for

Matter of Bentley

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Application of HIRAM E. BENTLEY for an Order…

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

Date published: May 12, 1937

Citations

251 App. Div. 773 (N.Y. App. Div. 1937)