Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Edwin L. O'Neill, Appellant, for an Order Restraining S. Howard Cohen, as President of the Board of Elections in the City of New York, and Jacob A. Livingston and Others, Constituting the Board of Elections in the City of New York, from Printing upon the Official Ballot to Be Used for the Election of Various Persons to Party Positions in the Democratic Party at the Primary Elections to Be Held on the 19th Day of September, 1939, the Name of Albert D. Schanzer for the Party Position of Justice of the Municipal Court of the Eighth District, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1939-09-11
Citations: 257 A.D. 1072
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Edwin L. O’Neill, Appellant, for an Order Restraining S. Howard Cohen, as President of the Board of Elections in the City of New York, and Jacob A. Livingston and Others, Constituting the Board of Elections in the City of New York, from Printing upon the Official Ballot to Be Used for the Election of Various Persons to Party Positions in the Democratic Party at the Primary Elections to Be Held on the 19th Day of September, 1939, the Name of Albert D. Schanzer for the Party Position of Justice of the Municipal Court of the Eighth District, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 257
Pages: 1072–1072

Head Matter:
Second Department,
September, 1939.
(September 11, 1939.)
In the Matter of the Application of Edwin L. O’Neill, Appellant, for an Order Restraining S. Howard Cohen, as President of the Board of Elections in the City of New York, and Jacob A. Livingston and Others, Constituting the Board of Elections in the City of New York, from Printing upon the Official Ballot to Be Used for the Election of Various Persons to Party Positions in the Democratic Party at the Primary Elections to Be Held on the 19th Day of September, 1939, the Name of Albert D. Schanzer for the Party Position of Justice of the Municipal Court of the Eighth District, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, Respondents.

Opinion:
The parties having agreed in open court that this appeal may be decided by a court of four justices, the decision is as follows: Order denying application to restrain the board of elections of the city of New York from printing the name of Albert D. Sehanzer as a candidate for justice of the Municipal Court, Eighth Municipal District, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, upon the official ballots to be used for the election of persons to party positions in the Democratic party at the primary election to be held on the 19th day of September, 1939, and to invalidate and declare null and void the designating petitions heretofore filed on behalf of such candidate, affirmed, without costs. No opinion. Hagarty, Johnston, Adel and Close, JJ., concur.