People ex rel. Reuther v. Sisson
New York Supreme Court
Hearing on writ of certiorari to review a refusal to grant a liquor tax certificate. The relator conducted a place for the sale of intoxicating liquors at the Lake Shore Hotel in the town of Irondequoit under a liquor tax certificate expiring October 1, 1917. On May 22, 1917, the legislature amended the Liquor Tax Law by chapter 623 of the.Laws of 1917 so as to reduce the number of certificates issued in towns of the state to the ratio of one for each 500 inhabitants (§ 8, f…
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Hearing on writ of certiorari to review a refusal to grant a liquor tax certificate. The relator conducted a place for the sale of intoxicating liquors at the Lake Shore Hotel in the town of Irondequoit under a liquor tax certificate expiring October 1, 1917. On May 22, 1917, the legislature amended the Liquor Tax Law by chapter 623 of the.Laws of 1917 so as to reduce the number of certificates issued in towns of the state to the ratio of one for each 500 inhabitants (§ 8, f 9, subd. c), and in order to reduce the number of certificates to correspond with this ratio provided for the…
1Opinion of the CourtRodenbeck, J.
The statute attacked by the relator seeks to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors. Among other provisions it reduces the number of places to which certificates may be issued in a town to a ratio not greater than-one in 500 of population. This the legislature had the undoubted right to do since it possessed the power to prohibit such sale entirely. It is not this feature of the law that the relator complains of but the method adopted by the legislature in determining which of the places in his town holding certificates should be entitled to them after the expiration of the year for which…
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