Copeland v. Knapp — 248 N.Y. 519

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p. 519

A. Stanley Copeland, Appellant, v. Florence E. Knapp, Secretary of State, Respondent.

Headnote

Appeal — order of Special Term denying motion for order of mandamus to Secretary of State or Governor — aopeal direct to Court of Appeals dismissed.

Copeland v. Knapp, Rensselaer Co. Special Term, Jan. 11, 1928, appeal dismissed.

(Argued March 29, 1928;

decided April 13, 1928.)

Appeal, on alleged constitutional questions, from an order of a Special Term of the Supreme Court in and for the county of Rensselaer, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany January 11, 1928, which denied for lack of jurisdiction a motion for an order of mandamus requiring the Secretary of State or the Governor to notify the Federal government that the act of the Legislature of this State ratifying the prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution was invalid.

A. Stanley Copeland, appellant, in person.

Albert Ottinger, Attorney-Qeneral (C. F. Dawes and John T. Smith of counsel), for respondent.

p. 520

Appeal dismissed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.