Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Rudolph C. Neuendorffer, to Determine the Validity, Legality and Sufficiency of a Certain Petition Filed with the Village Clerk of the Village of North Tarrytown on August 25, 1938
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1938-10-05
Citations: 169 Misc. 233
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Rudolph C. Neuendorffer, to Determine the Validity, Legality and Sufficiency of a Certain Petition Filed with the Village Clerk of the Village of North Tarrytown on August 25, 1938.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 169
Pages: 233–234

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Rudolph C. Neuendorffer, to Determine the Validity, Legality and Sufficiency of a Certain Petition Filed with the Village Clerk of the Village of North Tarrytown on August 25, 1938.
Supreme Court, Westchester County,
October 5, 1938.
Bleakley, Platt & Walker, for John Devlin.
Angelo E. Zíngaro, for the village of North Tarry town.
William T. Doyle, for the petitioner.

Opinion:
Wits chief, J.
After the filing of a petition for a referendum to the taxpayers upon a proposition to incur a bonded debt, and after the time for filing such a petition has expired, so that the names of additional petitioners cannot be supplied, signers of such a petition may not withdraw their signatures for the purpose of defeating the referendum. The petition has been acted upon when it has been filed, and the other signers thereof are at a disadvantage if some signers may withdraw their names from the petition, thereby defeating or aiding in the defeat of, the petition. None of the cases cited appears to be applicable to this case, so that the aboye memorandum is unsupported by precedent and is founded only upon what appears to be the logic and justice of the question submitted.