People ex rel. Ames v. Judson
New York Supreme Court
Motion by the relator for an order to punish Charles H. Judson, special deputy commissioner, etc., for contempt of court in neglecting 'and refusing to obey an order made by Mr. Justice Clark, June 2, 1908, whereby the said Judson, as special deputy commissioner, was commanded to grant the application of the said Edward J. Ames for a liquor tax certificate and to issue a certificate to him therefor.
1Opinion of the CourtSutherland, J.
The relator, Ames, is the proprietor of a hotel located in the town of Riga, Monroe county. He has held a liquor tax certificate and sold liquor at his hotel until the 1st of May, 1908. At the town election in ¡November, 1907, the electors of the town of Riga voted under the local option clause of the Liquor Tax Law that no liquor should he sold in that town and, under the statute as it then existed, tIn'p vote would have become operative on the first of May; hut the Legislature of 1908 changed the beginning of the excise year from May first to October first, and the learned *539justice who…
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