People ex rel. Hope v. Masterman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1 > Appeal by the defendant, William G. Masterman, as cottnty treasurer, etc., from an order of the Supreme Court,, made at the Steuben Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Steuben on the 3d day of December, 1912.
1Opinion of the Court
Lambeet, J.:
The proceeding is certiorari to review the action of the appellant in refusing to issue to relator a liquor tax certificate for premises known as the Farley building in the town of *451Corning. It is made to appear that such application was denied for the reason that a certificate authorizing traffic in liquors at such premises was shortly theretofore issued by appellant to one Force, and that the number of certificates of this character then outstanding in such municipality exceeded the ratio prescribed by subdivision 9 of section 8 of the Liquor Tax Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 34 [Laws…
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