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Basel v. O'Rourke

27 N.Y.2d 655 Court N.Y. Decision date 1970-06-16 English

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p. 655
In the Matter of Amos S. Basel et al., Appellants, v. Maurice J. O’Rourke et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, Defendants, and Eric D. Lipetz et al., Respondents.
Argued June 15, 1970;
decided June 16, 1970.
p. 657
Seymour Schwartz, appellant in person and for Amos S. Basel, appellant.
Harold L. Fisher and Sidney A. Mauriber for respondents.

Order affirmed, without costs, in the following memorandum: Applying the rule in Matter of Sullivan v. Power ( 24 A D 2d 709 , affd. 16 N Y 2d 854 ), and giving appellants credit for the signatures obtained by the subscribing witness Goldberg, there is still an insufficiency of valid signatures to sustain the petition.

Concur: Chief Judge Fuld and Judges Burke, Scileppi, Bergan, Breitel, Jasen and Gibson.

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