Guide Escort Service, Inc. v. Moss

The plaintiff brings this action against the commissioner of licenses of the city of New York and seeks a declaratory judgment that its proposed method of doing business as alleged in detail in the complaint and in the bill of particulars does not require a license as an employment agency.

The defendant moves to dismiss the complaint and for judgment on the pleadings on the ground that the remedy of declaratory judgment should in the proper exercise of the court’s discretion not be permitted to be invoked in this action.

One Peckham, the president of the plaintiff corporation, was convicted by…