Wood v. Board of Commissioners of Excise of the Town of Randolph
New York Supreme Court
Motion for an order directing the cleric of Cattaraugus county to retax the respondents’ bill of costs presented to him for taxation arising on appeal to the General Term from the Special Term, and to disallow the following items therein: Appeal to General Term before argument, twenty dollars; appeal to General Term for argument, forty dollars; increased costs as per Code Civil Procedure, section 3258, thirty dollars.
1Opinion of the CourtWard, J.
Upon the return of a writ of certiorari directed to the board of excise commissioners of the town of Randolph, Cattaraugus county, obtained upon the relation of Oscar 0. Wood, who desired a hotel license, requiring them to show why such a license should not have been granted, the commissioners having refused to grant such license, and having returned such reasons to the court as satisfied it that the commissioners had not arbitrarily denied, or denied without good and valid reasons, to grant such license, the court made an order sustaining the action of the commissioners and dismissed the…
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