Matter of Townsend
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 24, 1908, which affirmed an order of Special Term granting a motion for the revocation and cancellation of a liquor tax certificate. On April 29th, 1908, a liquor tax certificate was issued to the appellant, Edward Gr.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 24, 1908, which affirmed an order of Special Term granting a motion for the revocation and cancellation of a liquor tax certificate. On April 29th, 1908, a liquor tax certificate was issued to the appellant, Edward Gr. Smith, under the provisions of the Liquor Tax Law (L. 1896, ch. 112, as amended), authorizing him to conduct the business of trafficking in liquors from May 1st to September 30th, 1908, at the southwest corner of Sixteenth street and Fifth avenue, otherwise…
1Opinion of the CourtWerner, J.
The “ Liquor Tax Law ” provides that traffic in liquor, under subdivision 1 of section 11 of the act, shall not be permitted “ in any building, yard, booth or other place which shall be on the same street or avenue and within two hundred feet of a building occupied exclusively as a church or schoolhouse.” (Section 24, subd. 2.) The prohibition contained in this section is followed by certain exceptions, which have no application to the case at bar, in favor of specified places in which the liquor traffic had been lawfully carried on prior to the enactment of the statute and was being…
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