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Carl Johndahl, Appellant, v. City of Buffalo et al., Respondents.
    (Argued April 5, 1927;
    decided April 7, 1927.)
    
      Municipal corporations — Buffalo (city of) — temporary injunction restraining holding of special election vacated — qualifications of signers of protest against resolution of city council.
    
    
      Johndahl v. City of Buffalo, 220 App. Div. 746, affirmed.
    Appeal, by permission, from 'an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department,. entered April. 1, 1927, which affirmed an order of Special Term vacating a temporary injunction restraining the defendants from holding a special election pursuant to a resolution of the council of the city of Buffalo submitting to the electors the following question: “ Shall the action of the council, taken December 29, 1926, in adopting item No. 67, authorizing the expenditure of two million one hundred sixty-nine thousand two hundred and sixteen (§2,169,216.00) dollars by the board of managers of the Buffalo City Hospital for additions to and alterations of existing buildings, be approved? ”
    The following question was certified: “ Under section 31 of the charter of the city of Buffalo, must the electors who have signed the petition in question, here, protesting against the enactment of a resolution of the council of the city of Buffalo, and requesting its repeal, be registered or enrolled electors of the city of Buffalo in order that their signatures may be counted? ”
    
      Walter C. Newcomb for appellant.
    
      Frederick C. Rupp, Corporation Counsel (Andrew P. Ronan of counsel), for respondents.
   Order affirmed, with costs; question certified answered in the negative; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.