Court Opinion

ID: 3630568
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 00:10:15.550758+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:45:28.650634
License: Public Domain

[EDITORS' NOTE:  THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 490 
Section 249 of the Election Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 17) provides: "The names of all candidates nominated by any party or independent body for an office shall always appear in the row or column containing generally the names of candidates nominated by such party or independent body for other offices except as hereinafter provided."
The exceptions thereinafter provided do not include a case where the same person has been nominated by one party and one independent body.
The orders should be reversed and the application of the petitioner granted, without costs.
CRANE, Ch. J., LEHMAN, O'BRIEN, HUBBS, LOUGHRAN and FINCH, JJ., concur; CROUCH, J., not sitting.
Ordered accordingly. *Page 491