Case Name: In the Matter of the Designation of Eugene M. Travis, as a Candidate for the Republican Party Nomination for the Office of Comptroller, etc.; John Kissel, Contestant, Respondent; Eugene M. Travis, and Others, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1918-08-23
Citations: 184 A.D. 505
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Designation of Eugene M. Travis, as a Candidate for the Republican Party Nomination for the Office of Comptroller, etc. John Kissel, Contestant, Respondent; Eugene M. Travis, and Others, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 184
Pages: 505–507

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Designation of Eugene M. Travis, as a Candidate for the Republican Party Nomination for the Office of Comptroller, etc. John Kissel, Contestant, Respondent; Eugene M. Travis, and Others, Appellants.
Second Department,
August 23, 1918.
Acknowledgment — filing papers with Secretary of State — authentication of notary’s certificate unnecessary.
Where papers are filed with the Secretary of State no authentication by the county clerk of the notary’s certificate is required.
Appeal by Eugene M. Travis and others from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of Kings county on the 22d day of August, 1918, striking the name of said Eugene M. Travis from the primary ballot.
A. S. Gilbert, Nathan L. Miller, John G. Saxe and Samuel A. Berger, for the appellants.
Louis J. Altkrug, opposed.

Opinion:
Thomas, J.:
I vote to reverse upon the ground that the office of the Secretary of State is common to the State, and is not limited to the county of Albany; and that when the Secretary of State receives a petition, his function and act are not confined within the county of Albany, but operate and extend through the whole State. Hence no authentication by the county clerk of the notary's certificate is required, nor has it been practiced or regarded as necessary in filing papers with the Secretary of State where certification by a notary public or similar officer is demanded. If the verification of the petition be regarded as an acknowledgment, still no further form seems to be required either for that, or for a declination by the person designated, or for filling a vacancy. (Election Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 17; Laws of 1909, chap. 22], § 50, 52.)*
Putnam, J., concurred.