New York Supreme Court June 15, 1903 (People ex rel. Sandman v. Brush)

Smith, W. M., J.

The only substantial question to be determined upon this application is: Have the relators lost their right to traffic in intoxicating liquor at the places where they lawfully carried on such traffic on March 23, 1896, without the consent of the owners of dwelling-houses within 200 feet, because they suspended the traffic for two years by reason of an adverse vote of the town