Case ID: ny-sup-ct_81/html/0637-08.html
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Author: {"author": "\n      Pratt, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Lawrence D. Huntington and Others, Commissioners of Fisheries of the State of New York, Appellants, v. John J. Crennan, a Justice of the Peace, etc., Respondent.
   Order denying writ of mandamus affirmed, with costs.

Pratt, J.

We think the court below correctly held that the law of 1893 cannot be given a retrospective effect so as to change the title to the moneys already in the hands of the defendant. Order affirmed, with costs.