In re Getman
New York Supreme Court
This is an application by the above-named Getman for an order under section 16, Liquor Tax Law, as amended by chapter 398, Laws 1899, authorizing and directing a special town meeting in and of the town of Theresa, Jefferson county, for the purpose of having resubmitted thereto the four questions or propositions in regard to the issuing of liquor tax certificates, covered by the local option provisions of the section above referred to.
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This is an application by the above-named Getman for an order under section 16, Liquor Tax Law, as amended by chapter 398, Laws 1899, authorizing and directing a special town meeting in and of the town of Theresa, Jefferson county, for the purpose of having resubmitted thereto the four questions or propositions in regard to the issuing of liquor tax certificates, covered by the local option provisions of the section above referred to. The application is based upon the complaint that said propositions were not properly submitted at the regular town meeting in February, 1899, which purported to…
1Opinion of the CourtHiscock, J.
The petitioner is a member of a firm which owns a hotel in Theresa. At the annual town meeting held in that town in 1897, the voters, acting under the local option provisions already referred to, decided in favor of issuing liquor tax certificates to hotelkeepers and pharmacists and petitioner’s firm' took out and received one of the former class. He now desires to obtain another one and the county treasurer refuses to issue it to him upon the ground that at the annual town meeting, in February last, the voters decided against issuing such (or any) certificates.
Section 16 of the statute in…
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