Case Name: In the Matter of Richard Engert et al., Respondents, v. Everett F. McNab et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the County of Suffolk, and Patricia E. Anton et al., Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1983-08-31
Citations: 60 N.Y.2d 607
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Richard Engert et al., Respondents, v Everett F. McNab et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the County of Suffolk, and Patricia E. Anton et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 60
Pages: 607–608

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Richard Engert et al., Respondents, v Everett F. McNab et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the County of Suffolk, and Patricia E. Anton et al., Appellants.
Argued August 30, 1983;
decided August 31, 1983
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Steven M. Schapiro for appellants.
Frederic Block for respondents.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
Order reversed, without costs, and petition to validate dismissed.
In Matter of Hutson v Bass (54 NY2d 772, 774), we emphasized that "[wjhile substantial compliance is acceptable as to details of form, there must be strict compliance with statutory commands as to matters of prescribed content". The failure of the petitioners to set forth on the cover sheet of their designating petition the information necessary to comply with subdivision 2 of section 6-134 of the Election Law is a matter of substance, and not form, and that "omission to include the prescribed information is fatal." (Matter of Frome v Board of Elections, 57 NY2d 741, 742.)
Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Jones, Wachtler, Meyer and Simons concur in memorandum.
Order reversed, etc.