People v. Klinge

Full title: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. HARRY KLINGE, Appellant

Court: Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Jan 4, 1938

12 N.E.2d 161 (N.Y. 1938)

12 N.E.2d 161

Opinion

Argued December 2, 1937

Decided January 4, 1938

Appeal from the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, Appellate Part, Second Department.

George A. Spohr, Jr., and Pasquale E. Conforti for appellant. Edwin C. Morsch and Edwin B. Goddin for New York Dugan Brothers, Inc., amicus curiae. Charles P. Sullivan, District Attorney ( John H.W. Krogmann of counsel), for respondent.

Paul Windels, Corporation Counsel ( Paxton Blair of counsel), for City of New York, amicus curiae.

HUBBS, J.

The judgments should be reversed and the information dismissed upon the ground that chapter 23, article 13, section 153, subdivision 2 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of New York referring to the fifth ward of Queens borough is unreasonable, arbitrary, oppressive and discriminatory. (Cf. People v. Cohen, 272 N.Y. 319; People v. Kuc, 272 N.Y. 72; Matter of Mid-State Advertising Corp. v. Bond, 274 N.Y. 82.)

CRANE, Ch. J., LEHMAN, O'BRIEN, LOUGHRAN, FINCH and RIPPEY, JJ., concur.

Judgments reversed, etc.