People ex rel. Doscher v. Sisson

The relator applies for a writ of certiorari to review the action of. the commissioner of excise in issuing an order suspending the relator’s privileges under his liquor tax certificate and prohibiting him from selling alcoholic beverages. The order was issued under the provisions of chapter 521 of the Laws of 1917. That chapter empowered the excise commissioner, with the approval of the governor whenever in his opinion public safety required it and on the application of the mayor, to suspend privileges under liquor tax certificates during the present war in such parts of the city as are in…