People v. . Buffalo Fish Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department, entered November 29, 1899, affirming an interlocutory judgment in favor of defendant entered upon an order of Special Term overruling a demurrer to the defendant’s answer.
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Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department, entered November 29, 1899, affirming an interlocutory judgment in favor of defendant entered upon an order of Special Term overruling a demurrer to the defendant’s answer. The People brought this action to recover from the defendant, a domestic business corporation, certain penalties provided for in the provisions of the Fisheries, Game and Forest Law of 1892, as amended, for having in its possession during the close season certain fish described as pike, pickerel, bass and…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
The statute of this State for the protection of fish and game forbids any person, under pain of indictment and civil penalties, to either “ catch, kill or be possessed ” of certain fish named during what is called the close season therein prescribed. The defendant had in its possession during that season three different kinds of fish described in the statute, and this action was brought to recover the penalties denounced against offenders for violation of the law. The defendant in its answer alleged that its business is dealing in fresh fish on an extensive scale, and for that purpose…
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