Gordon v. McGovern

The question before the Special Term was whether section 2 of chapter 610 of the Laws of 1952 (Abandoned Property Law, § 1301) was inapplicable in respect to pawnbrokers and pawnbrolcerage business in the city of Buffalo. The *26Special Term, in denying defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in an action brought by plaintiff for a declaratory judgment, held that the statute was inapplicable to pawnbrokers and the pawnbrokerage business in the said city of Buffalo and permanently enjoined the defendant, J. Raymond McGovern, as Comptroller of the State of New York, from enforcing the…