Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York March 15, 1908 (Lantry v. Mede)

lead-opinion

Bischoff, J.

As I construe the statute under consideration (Greater N. Y. charter, § 780), the discretion vested in the official was not limited to matters of the very classes previously specified. The rule noscitur a sociis does not have cogent application here, since the word “ other ” is used in connection with things which in “ the opinion ” of the official were dangerous.