Wallack v. Mayor of New York
New York Supreme Court
Appeal by defendants from an order at the special term continuing an injunction. The action was brought by John Lester Wallack against the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, and the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York, to restrain defendants from carrying out the provisions of chapter 836 of the Laws of 1872. The plaintiff was proprietor of a theatre in New York city know as Wallack’s theater.
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Appeal by defendants from an order at the special term continuing an injunction. The action was brought by John Lester Wallack against the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, and the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York, to restrain defendants from carrying out the provisions of chapter 836 of the Laws of 1872. The plaintiff was proprietor of a theatre in New York city know as Wallack’s theater. All other material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, P. J.
The appeal in this case is from, an orcler of the special term, continuing pendente Hie an injunction restraining the defendants and each of them from “beginning or prosecuting or instituting against the plaintiff in the above-entitled action, any of the proceedings which are provided by any of the sections of chapter 836 of the Laws of 187% of this State, referred to in the complaint in this action, and from enforcing or imposing, or attempting to enforce or impose, any penalty or penalties against the said plaintiff, under or by color of any of the provisions of said chapter, by suit or…
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