Opinion
Argued October 5, 1942
Decided October 8, 1942
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, SMITH, J.
Robert H. Elder for appellant.
John P. McGrath, Saul C. Cohen and Abraham J. Multer for Morton Singer, respondent.
William C. Chanler, Corporation Counsel ( Stanley Buchsbaum, Paxton Blair and H. Broadman Epstein of counsel), for Board of Elections of the City of New York, respondent.
The Board of Elections was justified in its ruling that, in the absence of explanation, erasures or alterations, not initialled by the notary public, and other defects appearing on the face of the petition invalidate a sufficient number of signatures to require rejection of the petition.
The order should be affirmed.
LEHMAN, Ch. J., LOUGHRAN, FINCH, RIPPEY, LEWIS, CONWAY and DESMOND, JJ., concur.
Order affirmed.