Corron v. State

Claimants were the owners of farms in Clinton county upon which they maintained orchards of fruit trees. In the winter a great number of hungry cottontail rabbits destroyed a large part of the trees, and damages caused thereby are asked of the State. By section 198 of the Conservation Law, as it read when the claims accrued in January, 1931, but for which section 189 has since been substituted by chapter 40 of the Laws of 1938, it was provided that the open season for cottontail rabbits was from October fifteenth to January thirty-first, in so far as the location of these claims is concerned.…