People v. Butler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, David Butler, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Erie on the 2d day of November, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for fifty dollars, rendered by direction of the court after a trial and a direction of a verdict.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The action is to recover a penalty for delivering adulterated milk to a cheese factory. The defendant is a farmer in Erie county *706with a dairy of forty cows, and in 1902 was delivering its product to a full cream cheese factory at Chaffee, in said county.
About eight o’clock on the morning of May twenty-first of that year one Murray, who was the agent of the defendant, delivered four cans of milk from the defendant’s herd to this factory. The cans were of a capacity of thirty gallons each, two containing the milk of that morning, while in the other two, containing about forty…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- People v. . KiblerNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- People v. . BowenNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
- People v. WiardAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- People v. LaesserAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
- People v. WeaverAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
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- Buffalo Steel Co. v. Ætna Life InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1912