People ex rel. Hayes v. Edwards

This is a motion under section 16, chapter 112, Laws of 1896, known as the Liquor Tax Law, for an order directing a special town meeting of the town of Galen, Wayne county, for the resubmission of the four liquor tax questions set forth in said section, which the relator claims were improperly submitted to the voters at the biennial town meeting held November 3, 1903.

The principal questions involved upon this motion are:

First, that the petition set forth in the moving papers-herein was not sufficient to authorize the town clerk in proceeding thereon.

Second, that the election notice printed by…