Apel v. Moss

The question presented is whether the commissioner of licenses of the city of New York was justified in refusing to grant the petitioner for the year 1939 a renewal of a license to conduct a shooting gallery at 161 West Forty-ninth street, in the borough of Manhattan.

A license issued for the year 1938 was revoked, but restored on application to the court. It is the contention of the petitioner-respondent that the alleged reasons given for the 1938 revocation and the 1939 refusal to renew are practically the same, and that, as no appeal was taken from the order of restoration, the present…