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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Clark Shipston, Respondent, v. Maxwell M. Thompson, as Mayor of the City of Niagara Falls, et al., Appellants.
    
      Municipal corporations — mandamus to compel meeting of city council to appoint day for holding special election under Optional City Government Law-
    
    
      People ex rel. Shipston v. Thompson, 196 App. Div. 923, affirmed.
    (Argued April 22, 1921;
    decided April 26, 1921.)
    Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered March 28, 1921, which unanimously affirmed an order of Special Term granting a motion for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendants to convene a meeting of the city council of the city of Niagara Falls and appoint a day for holding a special election to submit .to the electors of said city the question of adopting a form of government defined as Plan F in the Optional City Government Law. Defendants contended that said law had been rendered inoperative as to the city of Niagara Falls by the enactment of chapter 530 of the Laws of 1916, the present charter of said city.
    
      Robert J. Moore for appellants.
    
      Augustus Thibaudeau for respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Chase, Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin and Andrews, JJ.