Case Name: In re DUELL et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1912-03-15
Citations: 134 N.Y.S. 75
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re DUELL et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 134
Pages: 75–78

Head Matter:
In re DUELL et al.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
March 15, 1912.)
Elections (§ 154 )—Ballots—Form of Ballots—Order of Names.
The Election Law having provided no order for the placing of names of candidates for delegates to the National Convention upon the primary ballot, the determination of the Board of Elections as to the positions in which these names shall appear cannot be reviewed by the courts.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Elections, Cent. Dig. § 136; Dec. Dig. § 154.*]
Dowling and Laughlin, JJ., dissenting.
Appeal from Special Term, New York County.
In the matter of the application against Charles H. Duell and others, as the Board of Elections, for an alteration in the ballots. From an order dismissing the application, applicants appeal. Affirmed.
Argued before INGRAHAM, P. J., and McLAUGHLIN, LAUGH-GIN, MILLER, and DOWLING, JJ.
William M. Bennett, for appellants.
Terence Farley, for respondent.
For other cases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
INGRAHAM, P. J.
The majority of the court is of the opinion that there is no direction contained in the election law as to the order in which names of candidates for delegates to the National Convention shall be placed upon the ballot; and that, there being no authority as to the position in which these names should appear on the ballot, the acts of the Board of Elections did not violate the statute, and therefore the court has no power to interfere.
For this reason, we think the court has not the power to reverse the action of the Board of Elections, and the order appealed from should be affirmed.
MCLAUGHLIN and MILLER, JJ., concur.