People v. Hills
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The People of the State of Hew York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 22d day of March, 1901, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Monroe Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hiscock, J.:
The action was brought to recover of the defendant a penalty for exposing and offering for sale “ unclean, impure, unhealthy, adulterated, colored or unwholesome cream ” in the city of Bochester in June, 190Q, in violation of the Agricultural Law (Laws of 1893, chap. 338, as amd. by Laws of 1900, chap. 101), and especially section 22 thereof.
There is no question but that upon the trial evidence was produced from which it might have been legitimately found that the cream in question contained formaldehyde and, therefore, came within the prohibition of the statute. Evidence was also…
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