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66 Misc. 521

In re Gainsway

New York Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1910

New York Supreme Court · decided 1910-03-15

<p>Intoxicating liquors — Local option — Validity of local option election — Notice of election — Publication — In what newspaper.</p> <p>Newspapers — Place of publication.</p> <p>A newspaper entered as second class matter at the post-office in a certain town, intended for suoh town and to be uttered and distributed there in the first instance, mailed to a large number of subscribers at that post-office and first distributed, circulated and sold in that town, though printed in some other place, is published in said town within the meaning of section 13 of the Liquor Tax Law, requiring publication of notice of the submission of the questions relating to local option.</p>

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1976

5 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1910-03-15

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DeAngelis, J.

¶1This application was made on the 27th day of November and the last brief was received December 29,1909.

¶2As the propositions with reference to the sale of liquor were voted on at a general election, it is claimed by the petitioner that the certified copy of the petition filed with the town clerk was not filed in the office of the county clerk within five days after the original petition was filed in the town clerk’s office.

¶3The proof satisfies me that the original petition was filed in the town clerk’s office October 11th, and the certified copy *522filed' in the county clerk’s office October 16, 1909, and hence in time.

¶4The petition also claims that the notice required by section 13 of the Liquor Tax Law was not published.

¶5The statute provides that the notice “ shall … be published at least five days before the vote is to be taken, once, in one newspaper published in the county in which such town is situate, which shall be a newspaper published in the town, if there be one.”

¶6The proof is satisfactory that the notice appeared in a printed newspaper known as the Remsen News which was circulated in the town of Remsen at least five days before the election. But the claim is that the Remsen News is not a newspaper published in the town of Remsen. The proof shows that the Remsen News is a weekly newspaper, printed at some place other than in the town of Remsen, hut entered as second class matter in the town of Remsen and mailed to a large number of subscribers in the post-office at the village of Remsen and distributed, circulated and sold first in that' village. The newspaper itself shows that it is intended for the town of Remsen and to be uttered and distributed in the first instance in said town. In my opinion at the time of the alleged publication it was a newspaper published in the town of Remsen and the notice was legally published.

¶7I think the petition must be dismissed.

¶8An order to that effect may be submitted.

¶9Ordered accordingly.

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