Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Isidore Goodman, Appellant, for a Peremptory Mandamus Order against William Fellowes Morgan, Jr., as Commissioner of Public Markets, Weights and Measures of the City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1937-06-25
Citations: 251 A.D. 861
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Isidore Goodman, Appellant, for a Peremptory Mandamus Order against William Fellowes Morgan, Jr., as Commissioner of Public Markets, Weights and Measures of the City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 251
Pages: 861–862

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Isidore Goodman, Appellant, for a Peremptory Mandamus Order against William Fellowes Morgan, Jr., as Commissioner of Public Markets, Weights and Measures of the City of New York, Respondent.

Opinion:
— Appeal by petitioner from an order entered at Special Term, denying his application for a peremptory mandamus order to compel the respondent to issue a license to petitioner to peddle and to operate a pushcart in the Livonia Avenue Market in Brooklyn, discontinued by respondent, and to compel respondent to continue to operate and conduct the market. Order unanimously affirmed, with costs, as a matter of law and not in the exercise of discretion. Attendance of pushcarts at the market in question fell off from 125 in November, 1932, to 11 in January, 1937, when respondent discontinued the market and offered petitioner a license in another market, in Blake avenue, two blocks away, in which there is adequate space for petitioner and the ten other peddlers who applied for licenses in the discontinued market. Respondent acted within authority specifically conferred upon him by the Legislature (Agriculture and Markets Law, § 261) and by the board of aldermen (Code of Ordinances of the City of New York, chap. 15, art. 1, § 1), and his exercise of discretion was not arbitrary, but sound, reasonable and lawful. Adel, Taylor and Close, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., and Carswell, J., concur in result.