Case Name: In the Matter of the Petition of Maurice P. Davidson, Individually and as Chairman of the Progressive Party, and Dennis J. McGinness, as One of the Committee to Fill Vacancies, and Peter H. Rulovo, Appellants, for a Mandamus Order against S. Howard Cohen and Others, Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, and Thomas E. Dewey, Frederick H. Bontecou, Julius Rothstein, Arthur V. McDermott, John Lord O'Brian, Edward F. Corsi, Helen Z. M. Rodgers, Richard B. Scandrett, Jr., Mary H. Donlon, Harold Bircher, Donald Boyle, J. Russell Sprague, Alice H. Fite, Charles H. Griffiths, Kenneth F. Simpson, Wm. M. Chadbourne, William Benenson and Thedore Roosevelt, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1938-10-31
Citations: 255 A.D. 816
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Petition of Maurice P. Davidson, Individually and as Chairman of the Progressive Party, and Dennis J. McGinness, as One of the Committee to Fill Vacancies, and Peter H. Rulovo, Appellants, for a Mandamus Order against S. Howard Cohen and Others, Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, and Thomas E. Dewey, Frederick H. Bontecou, Julius Rothstein, Arthur V. McDermott, John Lord O’Brian, Edward F. Corsi, Helen Z. M. Rodgers, Richard B. Scandrett, Jr., Mary H. Donlon, Harold Bircher, Donald Boyle, J. Russell Sprague, Alice H. Fite, Charles H. Griffiths, Kenneth F. Simpson, Wm. M. Chadbourne, William Benenson and Thedore Roosevelt, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 255
Pages: 816–816

Head Matter:
(October 31, 1938.)
In the Matter of the Petition of Maurice P. Davidson, Individually and as Chairman of the Progressive Party, and Dennis J. McGinness, as One of the Committee to Fill Vacancies, and Peter H. Rulovo, Appellants, for a Mandamus Order against S. Howard Cohen and Others, Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, and Thomas E. Dewey, Frederick H. Bontecou, Julius Rothstein, Arthur V. McDermott, John Lord O’Brian, Edward F. Corsi, Helen Z. M. Rodgers, Richard B. Scandrett, Jr., Mary H. Donlon, Harold Bircher, Donald Boyle, J. Russell Sprague, Alice H. Fite, Charles H. Griffiths, Kenneth F. Simpson, Wm. M. Chadbourne, William Benenson and Thedore Roosevelt, Respondents.

Opinion:
Order denying application for an order directing the board of elections not to place on the official ballot at the general election to be held on November 8,1938, the name of the " Independent Progressive Party " or its emblem the " Hand Holding the Scale," and to enjoin and restrain the " Independent Progressive Party," its officers, directors, committees, members, candidates and designees from using the name " Independent Progressive," or a similar name, unanimously affirmed, without costs. No opinion Present — Lazansky, P. J., Davis, Adel and Taylor, JJ.; Hagarty, J., not voting.