Case Name: In the Matter of John A. Roosevelt et al., Appellants, for Approval of the Filing of the Certificate of Incorporation of Metropolitan Republican Club, Inc. Thomas J. Curran, as Chairman of the Republican County Committee of the County of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1958-02-28
Citations: 4 N.Y.2d 19
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of John A. Roosevelt et al., Appellants, for Approval of the Filing of the Certificate of Incorporation of Metropolitan Republican Club, Inc. Thomas J. Curran, as Chairman of the Republican County Committee of the County of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 19–22

Head Matter:
In the Matter of John A. Roosevelt et al., Appellants, for Approval of the Filing of the Certificate of Incorporation of Metropolitan Republican Club, Inc. Thomas J. Curran, as Chairman of the Republican County Committee of the County of New York, Respondent.
Argued December 6, 1957;
decided February 28, 1958.
Frederick T. Shea for appellants.
Paxton Blair and Alvin McKinley Sylvester for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This proceeding was instituted pursuant to section 10 of the Membership Corporations Law to obtain judicial approval of the incorporation of a political club which appropriated the name of a political party and a metropolitan label. Approval has been denied by the courts below because, in their view, the consent required by the explicit provisions of the applicable section of the statute was reasonably withheld by the chairman of the county committee of the particular political party.
The single issue presented is whether the withholding of such consent was " unreasonable " within the meaning of that section.
The courts below have concluded that it was not. Since there is support in the record for such determination, the order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs.