Case Name: In the Matter of Peter J. Garvey
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-02
Citations: 91 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 611
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Peter J. Garvey.
Judges: 
Reporter: Supreme Court Reports (Hun)
Volume: 91
Pages: 611–615

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Peter J. Garvey.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs on opinion in The Matter of Goodman (84 Hun, 53).
Statement of facts. — Appeal from an order of the Special Term striking the names of the appellants from the registry of voters of the second election district in the thirteenth Assembly district of the city of New York. Henry Meiser is twenty-seven years of age and was born at Wappinger's Falls, N. Y., where he resided with his parents until he reached the age of fourteen, 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, Penn. In 1887, when twenty years of age, he went south as an engineer, and in 1888, when twenty-one 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 house. 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. 04 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 corner of Tenth avenue and Thirty-seventh street. In 1892 he voted as a resident of No. 55 West Thirty-first 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. 62 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. 0 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 twenty-one, he lias continually resided in this city, having no home elsewhere. He swears that he intends permanently to reside in this State. George Gunnell, Jr., became twenty-one years of age in 1889; liis father's home is in Pennsylvania In 1891 lie settled at the town of Sodus Centre, N. Y., where he was engaged as a lay reader until September, 1891. In 1891 and 3892 he was a student at Harvard University, Mass., retaining his residence at Sodus Centre. 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 Rest. He receives no support from his parents, but supports himself. In 1893 he registered as a resident of No. 375 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 aresident 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 bom in the State of Virginia, where his parents now reside, and which State he left in 1892 and came to Now York with the intent to make that city his permanent place of residence. lie 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 liis family, but supports himself by his own exertions. He states in liis 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 Reverend Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York, that liis 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 county, Va. Since that date he has had no home other than the one established rn this city. Thomas Henry Yardley is twenty-five 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.