People ex rel. Thomas v. Sackett
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Martin R. Sackett, as treasurer of the county of St. Lawrence, from au order of the Supreme Court, made at the St. Lawrence Special Term and entered in the.office of the clerk of the county of St. Lawrence on the llth day of June, 1896, reversing the decision of the county treasurer of St. Lawrence county, refusing to issue a tax certificate to the relator, and directing that such certificate, issue.
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Appeal by the defendant, Martin R. Sackett, as treasurer of the county of St. Lawrence, from au order of the Supreme Court, made at the St. Lawrence Special Term and entered in the.office of the clerk of the county of St. Lawrence on the llth day of June, 1896, reversing the decision of the county treasurer of St. Lawrence county, refusing to issue a tax certificate to the relator, and directing that such certificate, issue. The order was made in a proceeding upon certiorari under section 28 of chapter 112 of the Laws of 1896, commonly known as the Liquor Tax Law.
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, P. J.:
The relator in this matter applied to the treasurer of St. Lawrence county for the certificate authorized by section 19 of chapter 112 of the Laws of 1896, commonly known as the Liquor Tax Law. He was a resident of the town of Edwards, in that county, and fully complied swith all the requirements of such section. The treasurer, *291however, refused to issue to him a certificate, upon the ground that, at the time the above-cited act took éffect, there was no license in the town of Edwards, and that no vote of such town had been since lawfully taken, authorizing the sale of liquor in…
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