Case Name: In re O'BRIEN. Appeal of DALESSANDRO
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-02-15
Citations: 102 N.Y.S. 845
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re O’BRIEN. Appeal of DALESSANDRO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 102
Pages: 845–851

Head Matter:
(117 App. Div. 628)
In re O’BRIEN. Appeal of DALESSANDRO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department
February 15, 1907.)
Elections—'Enrollment Books—Names of Electors—Striking from Books —Proceedings—Affidavits—Sufficiency. ,
In proceedings to- have the name of a certain person stricken from the enrollment book of an election district, an affidavit which shows that the person whose name it is sought to strike from the book is enrolled from No. 9 Mulberry street, and that affiant resides at , that, number, is insuffi ciént to sustain the application, where it does not show whether the place named is a private house, boarding house, or tenement, or whether affiant is a janitor, lessee, or proprietor, or that he is in a position to know the facts.
Clarke and Ingraham, JJ„ dissenting.
Appeal from Special Term, New York County.
Application by Dominick Dalessandro, for, an order to strike the name of James O’Brien from the enrollment book of the Sixteenth election district of the First assembly district, in the county of New York. From an order denying the application, applicant appeals. Affirmed.
Argued before PATTERSON,'P. J., and INGRAHAM, LAUGH-LIN, CLARKE, and SCOTT; JJ.
James H. Hickey, for appellant.
Theodore Connoly, for respondents.

Opinion:
LAUGHLIN, J.
In this case the affidavit, which asserts the facts positively,.shows that the ¿lector, whose name-it is sought to strike from the enrollment book, enrolled from No. 9 Mulberry street, and that the affiant resides at that number; but it does not show whether it is a private house, or boarding house, or a tenement, or whether the affiant is the janitor, lessee, or proprietor, or that he is in a position to know the facts. We are of opinion that the rule laid down in the opinion in the Matter of the Application, etc., of Bernard Giles (argued and decided herewith) 102 N. Y. Supp. 851, should be applied here, and that the .order should be affirmed upon the authority of the decision in that matter. .
PATTERSON, .-P. J., concurs.
SCOTT, J. For the reasons stated in Matter of Giles, 102 N. Y. Supp. 851, I concur in result.
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