Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Charles P. Seeley, as Sheriff of the County of Seneca, for a Writ of Mandamus, Appellant, against George T. Purcell, as County Clerk of Said County, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1921-06-10
Citations: 231 N.Y. 601
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Charles P. Seeley, as Sheriff of the County of Seneca, for a Writ of Mandamus, Appellant, against George T. Purcell, as County Clerk of Said County, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 231
Pages: 601–601

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Charles P. Seeley, as Sheriff of the County of Seneca, for a Writ of Mandamus, Appellant, against George T. Purcell, as County Clerk of Said County, Respondent.
Counties — juries — mandamus to compel county clerk to continue separate jury districts in county of Seneca properly denied.
Matter of Seeley v. Purcell, 196 App. Div. 920, affirmed.
(Argued June 7, 1921;
decided June 10, 1921.)
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered March 31, 1921, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion for a writ of mandamus to compel the county clerk of Seneca county to retain and use at the Trial Term of the Supreme Court appointed to be held in said county on the first Monday of March, 1921, only the lists of names of grand and trial jurors that had been, or might be, drawn from what is known as the “ north jury district ” of said county, and to disregard and cancel the lists of jurors drawn from the entire county, pursuant to an act of the board of supervisors of Seneca county, constituting the county a single jury district, and further commanding said clerk to keep in separate boxes the ballots bearing the names of the grand and trial jurors respectively from the north and south jury districts respectively of said county.
John M. Sutton for appellant.
William S. MacDonald for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Chase, Hogan, Pound, McLaughlin and Andrews, JJ. Absent: Crane, -J.