Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York January 24, 1908 (People v. Morrison)

G-aynoe, J.:

The defendants were convicted in the borough of Brooklyn in the court of" special sessions of petit larceny for stealing clams in that part of Jamaica bay adjacent to that part of the said borough which was formerly the town of Flatlands. The prosecutor had planted clams in a bed to grow and mature, and he accused the defendants of stealing them.