Case Name: In the Matter of Reuben L. Haskell, Appellant, against John H. Voorhis et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1927-10-26
Citations: 246 N.Y. 256
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Reuben L. Haskell, Appellant, against John H. Voorhis et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 246
Pages: 256–258

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Reuben L. Haskell, Appellant, against John H. Voorhis et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, Respondents.
(Argued October 25, 1927;
decided October 26, 1927.)
David F. Price and Reuben L. Haskell for appellant.
The ruling of the court below is incorrect. (Matter of Hopper v. Britt, 203 N. Y. 144; 204 N. Y. 524; Matter of Callahan, 200 N. Y. 59; Matter of Burke v. Terry, 203 N. Y. 293.)
George P. Nicholson, Corporation Counsel (Joseph P. Reilly of counsel), for respondents.
Albert Conway for Democratic County Committee of Kings County.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We hold in the circumstances of this case that there was no unjust discrimination to the prejudice of the petitioner.
The Anti-Dry League nominated a single candidate for a single office. A member of that league would have no difficulty in finding the name of that candidate upon the machine, and would not be diverted by the form of the machine into a belief that the name of such candidate was to be looked for elsewhere.
The question is not here whether unfairness or prejudice would result if the League had nominated other candidates whose names were placed upon a separate horizontal column to- the exclusion of the petitioner's, and as to that we express no opinion.
The order should be affirmed without costs.
Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman and O'Brien, JJ., concur; Kellogg, J., dissents.
Order affirmed, etc.