Case ID: ny_221/html/0623-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Albert E. McVea, Appellant.
    (Submitted June 13, 1917;
    decided July 11, 1917.)
    
      People v. McVea, 175 App. Div. 909, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered October 4, 1916, which affirmed a judgment of the Genesee County Court convicting the defendant of a violation of the Liquor Tax Law. The defendant was charged with permitting a girl,- in his employ, to serve drinks to customers on the premises, but the defendant’s contention and defense was that this girl was a servant of the defendant and had been in his employ for nearly three years as a domestic and servant, with various duties about the household, such as doing the kitchen and dining room work, waiting on tables,' etc.; and that as such servant she constituted, while so employed and for such a length of time, a member of the defendant’s family, and as such came within the exception of the statute and was a person by whom liquors might be served on the premises.
    
      William E. Webster for appellant.
    
      James L. Kelly for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cuddeback, Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ.