Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of A. David Benjamin, Appellant, for an Order to Validate, etc., the Designating Petitions Filed by John Cashmore with the Board of Elections, etc., Respondents, Purporting to Designate Him as a Candidate for the Office of President of the Borough of Brooklyn, etc., in the Republican Primary Election
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1941-09-15
Citations: 262 A.D. 959
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of A. David Benjamin, Appellant, for an Order to Validate, etc., the Designating Petitions Filed by John Cashmore with the Board of Elections, etc., Respondents, Purporting to Designate Him as a Candidate for the Office of President of the Borough of Brooklyn, etc., in the Republican Primary Election.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 262
Pages: 959–960

Head Matter:
(September 15, 1941.)
In the Matter of the Application of A. David Benjamin, Appellant, for an Order to Validate, etc., the Designating Petitions Filed by John Cashmore with the Board of Elections, etc., Respondents, Purporting to Designate Him as a Candidate for the Office of President of the Borough of Brooklyn, etc., in the Republican Primary Election.

Opinion:
Reckoning the number of valid signatures, sheet by sheet, there are sufficient sheets in which it will be found there is no such " large proportion " of signatures to which subscribing witnesses had falsely sworn as would invalidate the petition. Therefore, there are sufficient valid signatures. Due to an inadvertence of the Special Term a modification of the order will be necessary. Order modified on the law and the facts by adding thereto a direction that the board of elections of the city of New York place upon the official ballot to be used in the primary election of the Republican party to be held on September 16, 1941, the name of John Cashmore as a candidate for the office of president of the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York; and as so modified the order is affirmed, without costs. Lazansky, P. J., Adel and Close, JJ., concur; Carswell and Taylor, JJ., concur in the result.