People v. Sterling

The action is brought for penalties -under section 62 of the Conservation Law, as it now exists. That section is a substitute for section 61-a of the Conservation Law as it existed in 1925. In 1925 an action was brought by the plaintiff against this defendant under the law as it then existed to recover penalties alleged to have been incurred for maintaining advertising signs, *366some of which are involved here, as I understand it. A motion in that action was made before Justice Edward M. Angell to dismiss the complaint upon the ground, among others, that it did not state facts sufficient to…