In re Clement

This matter comes before me by the return of an order to show cause granted by Mr. Justice Fitts, returnable at the Albany Special Term. Application is made for the revocation and cancellation of Van Etten’s liquor tax certificate for the reason that, at the time it was granted, the place where liquors were to be trafficked in was on the same street and within 200 feet of a building occupied exclusively as a church; that the application so stated and that traffic in liquors was not carried on in this particular place now occupied by Van Etten on March 23, 1896.

Mo witnesses were sworn, but the…