Case Name: The People ex rel. Alice Sanders, App'lt, v. Hugh J. Grant, Mayor, Resp't
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1893-06-30
Citations: 54 N.Y. St. Rep. 349
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People ex rel. Alice Sanders, App’lt, v. Hugh J. Grant, Mayor, Resp’t.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 54
Pages: 349–353

Head Matter:
The People ex rel. Alice Sanders, App’lt, v. Hugh J. Grant, Mayor, Resp’t.
(Supreme Court, General Term,, First Department,
Filed June 30, 1893.)
Children—'Theatrical exhibitions—Penal Code, § 292.
Under § 292 of the Penal Code, as amended by chap. 309, Laws 1892, the mayor has no right to license children to sing and dance in theatrical entertainments.
Appeal by Alice Sanders, the relator, from an order made by Mr. Justice Beach, at special term, denying her application on order to show cause for a peremptory writ of mandamus against the mayor, requiring him to give his consent, under chapter 309 of the Laws of 1892, to the appearance of Zelda Sanders, her daughter, eleven years of age, in a theatrical entertainment at Palmer’s theatre, in which said child was desired to sing and dance.
Myer J. Stein and Wales F. Severance, for app’lt; William H. Clark and Elbridge T. Gerry, for resp’ts.

Opinion:
Lawrence, J.
It is too late to question the constitutionality of § 292 of the Penal Code, and of chapter 309 of the Laws of 1892, amending the same.
The opinion of Mr. Justice Beach, at the special term, fully answers all the questions sought to be raised upon this appeal and concurring, as I do, in the views expressed by him, I am of the opinion that the order denying the motion of the relator, for a writ of peremptory mandamus, should be affirmed.