Clement v. Stratton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Maynard FT. Clement, as State Commissioner of Excise, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 26th day of February, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of February, 1909, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J.:
This action is brought to recover $500 upon, a liquor tax bond. The defendant the American Fidelity Company gave its bond which was conditioned that if the defendant Stratton should violate ■ the provisions of the Liquor Tax Law at any time during his holding of the liquor tax certificate issued to him, the said defendant would pay to the State the-sum of $500. The plaintiff sought in the action to prove by four special agents of the department that the Liquor Tax Law had been violated upon two occasions, one upon the 27th day of October, 1907, and the other on the 10tli day *84of…
2Cited by1 opinion
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