Case Name: In re GARVEY. In re MEISER et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-02-15
Citations: 32 N.Y.S. 689
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re GARVEY. In re MEISER et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 32
Pages: 689–697

Head Matter:
In re GARVEY. In re MEISER et al.
(Supreme Court, General Term, First Department
February 15, 1895.)
Voters—Resident—Seminary or Learning.
Under Const, art. 2, § 3, providing that, for purposes of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained a residence while a student in any seminary of learning, it is immaterial that a student has no other domicile than such seminary. Follett, J., dissenting. Goodman v. Bainton (Sup.) 31 N. Y. Supp. 1043, followed.
Appeal from special term, Hew York county.
Application by Peter J. Garvey to strike from the list of registry of voters of the Second election district of the Thirteenth assembly district in the city of Hew York the names of Henry Meiser, John Neilson Barry, George Gunnell, Jr., and Thomas Henry Yardley.
The application was granted, and Meiser, Barry, Gunnell, and Yardley appeal. Affirmed.
The facts are stated by Mr. Justice FOLLETT, as follows:
Henry Meiser is 27 years of age, and was born at Wappinger’s Falls, N. Y., where he resided with his parents until he reached the age of 14, when he left home, and attended a school in New Hampshire, and a college in Massachusetts. His father died in 1881. His mother now resides in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1887, when 20 years of age, he went south as an engineer; and in 1888, when 21 years of age, he returned to this state, residing at Buffalo, where he lived upon the income of his property and the results of his labor until October, 1889, when he came to this city, and became the secretary of the Microphone Carbon Battery Company at No. 112 Liberty street, and established his residence at No. 28 West Twelfth street,—a boarding xhouse. September 15, 1890, he removed to No. 64 Clinton Place, where he took an apartment for himself and sister, and resided there until September, 1891. He registered and voted in November, 1890, as a resident of No. 64 Clinton Place, and his name is in the city directory for that year. From September, 1891, to March, 1892, he was temporarily at Milford, Conn., as purchasing agent for the National Electrical Manufacturing Company, but did not become a resident of that state. From March, 1892, to November, 1892, he resided at No. 55 West Thirty-First street,—a boarding house,—and was employed as a clerk for a firm doing business at the comer of Tenth avenue and Thirt)r-Seventh street. In 1892 he voted as a resident of No. 55 West ThirtyFust street, and was placed on the list of persons qualified to perform jury duty, and summoned to perform such duty. From November, 1892, to May, 1893, he resided at No. 52 West Twenty-First street,—a boarding house. The summer of 1893 he spent on Long Island. In September, 1893, he began the study of theology at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at No. 175 Ninth avenue, in the city of New York, and which is in the Second election district of the Thirteenth assembly district of said city. He took up his residence at one of the buildings belonging to said institution, which is known as “No. 6 Chelsea Square,” and also as “No. 175 Ninth Avenue.” In the year 1893 he voted as a resident of this place. He supports himself, and pays all his own expenses, and since 1889, the year after he became 21, he has continually resided in this city, having no home elsewhere. He swears that he intends permanently to- reside in this state.
George Gunnell, Jr., became 21 years of age in 1889. His father’s home is in Pennsylvania. In 1891 he settled at the town of Sodus Center, N. Y., where he was engaged as a lay reader until September, 1891. In 1891 and 1892 he was a student at Harvard University, Mass., retaining his residence at Sodus Center. In September, 1892, he became a student of .the General Theological Seminary, and has rooms in that institution. He is also engaged in business in this city as a bookseller with a partner, under the firm name of Gunnell & Collins. He is also a lay reader in the Church of the Heavenly Best. He receives no support from his parents, but supports himself. In 1893 he registered as a resident of No. 175 Ninth avenue, and voted at the general election. He testified that he had been a citizen and resident of this state continuously since 1889, and a resident of the Second election district in the Thirteenth assembly district continuously for the past two years, and that he intends to make this city his fixed and permanent home.
John Neilson Barry was born in the state of Virginia, where his parents now reside, and which state he left in 1892, and came to New York with the intent to make that city his permanent place of residence. He became a student at said seminary, and took up his abode there. At the time this application was made he was a lay reader in a church at White Plains. He receives no support from his family, but supports himself by his own exertions. He states in his affidavit that his intention is to make New York City his permanent home, and that his residence therein is not conditioned upon or limited to the seminary course which he is pursuing. On November 19, 1892, he declared, in a letter addressed to the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, bishop of New York, that his legal residence was in this city. On the same date he wrote the registrar of Warrenton, Va., that he had changed his residence to this city, and directed him to strike his name from the list of registered voters of Fauquier
comity, Va. Since that date he has had no home other than the one established in this city.
Thomas Henry Yardley is 25 years of age, and was born at Middletown, Conn. His father died in 1882, and his mother is a resident of Rhode Island, with whom he has not resided since 1888. From that year until 1892 he was a college student in Connecticut and in Massachusetts. In the autumn of 1892 he became a student at said seminary, abiding at No. 175 Ninth avenue, since which time he has continued to be a student thereat, and is also employed as a teacher. He supports himself by his own labor and by the income from his property. He does not live with his mother, or return to her residence during vacation, and does not consider Rhode Island as his home. He swears that he never intends to reside in that state, but intends permanently to reside in this state.
Argued before VAN BRUNT, P. J., and O’BRIEN and FOLLETT, JJ.
George F. Canfield, for appellants.
Franklin Bien, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Order affirmed, with costs, on opinion in Goodman v. Bainton (Sup.) 31 N. Y. Supp. 1043.