People v. . Wendel
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgmerit of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered October 22, 1915, which reversed a judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the city of New York sustaining a demurrer to an information charging the defendant with a violation of section 337 of the Public Health Law.
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Appeal from a judgmerit of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered October 22, 1915, which reversed a judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the city of New York sustaining a demurrer to an information charging the defendant with a violation of section 337 of the Public Health Law. The appellant was charged in the Court of Special Sessions of New York city with having violated section 337 of the Public Health Law, as amended by chapter 414, Laws of 1914, by placing food, i. e., pigs’ feet, in a cold storage warehouse, and keeping the same…
1Opinion of the CourtCuddeback, J.
The determination of the Appellate Division overruling the defendant’s demurrer is appeal-able to this court. (People v. Hammerstein, 211 N. Y. 552.)
Counsel for the appellant contends that the amendment of April 17, 1914, made to section 337 of the Public Health Law does not apply to food in cold storage when the amendment took effect. To give it such application is to make the amendment retrospective in its operation, and that is contrary to the well-settled rule of statutory construction. (Rho des v. Sperry & Hutchinson Co., 193 N. Y. 223.)
As opposed to this contention, the district…
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