People Ex Rel. Tyroler v. Warden of City Prison
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 28, 1898, affirming an order of the Special Term dismissing the relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and remanding him to the custody of the defendant.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 28, 1898, affirming an order of the Special Term dismissing the relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and remanding him to the custody of the defendant. The relator is a citizen of the state of New York and the United States, and immediately prior to his arrest, and for several years before that time, had been engaged in the city of New York in the business of selling, and offering for sale, and procuring tickets, giving, and purporting to give, the right to a…
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, Ch. J.
The statute that appellant insists is in derogation of the limitation placed upon the legislative power by the People, through the Constitution of the state, reads as follows: “ Section 1. The Penal Code is hereby amended by inserting therein a new section, to be known as section six hundred and fifteen, to read as follows : § 615. Sale of passage iiclcets on vessels and railroads forbidden, except by agents specially a/uthorized. No person shall issue or sell, or offer to sell, any passage ticket, or an instrument giving or purporting to give any right, either absolutely or…
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