Sisson v. Harvey
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Herbert S. Sisson, as State Commissioner of Excise, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 9th day of March, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of March, 1918, denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The defendant was the proprietor of the Parkway Hotel, at No. 2 East One Hundred and Tenth street, which is at the southeasterly corner of Fifth avenue, in the borough of Manhattan, New York. On the 20th day of September, 1916, he duly obtained a certificate authorizing him to traffic in liquors on said premises during the ensuing liquor tax year, and executed a bond in the penal sum of $1,800 conditioned, among other things, as required by the Liquor Tax Law,* that he would not violate or suffer or permit the violation of the provisions of that law, and in lieu of sureties he…
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