People ex rel. Crane v. Chandler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Melville M. Crane, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Cayuga Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Cayuga on the 1st day of May, 1899, denying his motion for a peremptory writ of man-damns directed to James 3L Chandler, as town clerk of the town of Moravia, N. Y., requiring him forthwith to call a special town meeting of the electors of said town for the purpose of voting on the liquor license questions.
1Opinion of the Court
Hardin, P. J.:
January 12, 1899, there was filed with the town clerk a written petition signed by the electors of said town to the number of ten per cent of the vote cast at the next preceding general election held in that town, which was acknowledged as required by law, requesting the submission at the then next annual town meeting to be held in said town of the questions provided to be submitted at the annual town meeting by section 16 of the Liquor Tax Law (Laws of 1896, chap. 112.) The town clerk provided ballots for the submission of said questions at the annual town meeting held in said…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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