Lucille Farm Products, Inc. v. Barber

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term entered in Albany County) to annul a determination of respondent Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets which ordered that petitioner’s milk dealer’s license be revoked unless it made certain payments to a dairy farmer’s cooperative.

Petitioner, a licensed milk dealer in New York, entered into two separate agreements in late 1979 in order to set up a cheese manufacturing plant in St. Lawrence County. The first, a lease for the plant, was between petitioner and several cooperative…