Matter of Ormsby v. . Bell
New York Court of Appeals
Cross-appeals from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 11, 1916, which modified and affirmed as modified an order of Special Term granting a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the defendant to renew a license permitting the petitioner to operate a motion picture theatre. The commissioner of licenses could not unreasonably refuse to renew the petitioner’s license. (People ex rel.
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Cross-appeals from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 11, 1916, which modified and affirmed as modified an order of Special Term granting a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the defendant to renew a license permitting the petitioner to operate a motion picture theatre. The commissioner of licenses could not unreasonably refuse to renew the petitioner’s license. (People ex rel. Lodes v. Dept. of Health, 189 N. Y. 187; People ex rel. E. C. T. Club v. S. R. Comm., 190 N. Y. 31.) The commissioner’s refusal…
1Opinion of the CourtCuddeback, J.
This is an. application for a peremptory writ of mandamus to require the commissioner of licenses of the city of New York to grant to the petitioner a license to operate a motion picture, theatre. The court at Special Term made an order granting the writ, which the Appellate Division affirmed, with some modification.
Before erecting the building for the purpose of a theatre the owner secured the approval of the site thereof by the btireau of licenses as an appropriate place for a motion picture theatre. That was in January, 1914. The plaintiff proceeded with the erection of the building and…
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