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18 How. Pr. 302

Hait v. Benson

New York Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1859

New York Supreme Court · decided 1859-09-15

This was an action commenced by the above-named respondents, before James H. Brown, a justice of the peace of the county of Ulster, against the appellant, for violations of sections thirteen and fourteen of the act entitled, “ An act to suppress intemperance, and to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors,’’ passed April 16, 1857.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently September 1881

2 state decisions

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Decided 1859-09-15

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Gould, Justice.

¶1It seems to me that the decisions in 4 Hill, 136, and 5 Hill, 215, and 1 Denio, 279, are not at all *308at variance with, that in 6 Hill, 240; nor do I see that 2 Kern. 52 alters either of those prior decisions. And while I am confident that this suit would have been well brought in the name of the Board of Commissioners, without the individual names of the members of that board, there can be no pretence that the whole cause of action is not specifically and appropriately alleged as accruing to them as the Board of Commissioners, and to the Board of Commissioners. Under these circumstances, I see no occasion for holding the words, Board of Commissioners of,” &c., to be merely “ descriptio personas,” any more than for holding that the individual names are mere surplusage, where the right of action is well set forth, and the proper party plaintiff named as such.

¶2I should affirm the judgment..

¶3Hogbboom and Wright, Justices, concurred.

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