People ex rel. Watkins v. Commissioners of Excise
New York Supreme Court
Certiorari upon the relation of Charles T. Watkins to review the action of John B. Smallwood, Stephen C. Yincent and James O. McClure, as commissioners of excise of the town of Warsaw in the county of Wyoming, in refusing to grant to the relator a hotel license for the sale of liquor.
1Opinion of the CourtWard, J.
The relator keeps a hotel in the town and village of Warsaw known as the Watkins House. This village has about 4,000 inhabitants. Watkins is a man of good character and competent to keep a first-class hotel. The hotel building is a fine one, and every way suitable to carry on the business of *548hotel keeping and properly furnished for that purpose. Commissioner Smallwood was duly nominated and elected as a no-license commissioner of excise for the town of Warsaw at a regular town meeting held in February, 1891. Stephen 0. Vincent was in the same manner nominated and elected as a no-license…
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