Opinion
Argued October 7, 1941
Decided November 21, 1941
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, HAMMER, J.
Menahem Stim and Thomas J. Curran for petitioners, appellants.
William C. Chanler, Corporation Counsel ( David DuVivier and Paxton Blair of counsel), for defendants, appellants.
Samuel M. Birnbaum for American Legion, Department of New York, amicus curiae. Harold A. Felix for Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States et al., amici curiae. Frank S. Parmenter, Corporation Counsel, for City of Troy, amicus curiae. H. Eliot Kaplan for Richard Welling, intervener, defendant, respondent.
Albert De Roode for John J. Tangney et al., amici curiae.
Order affirmed, without costs. Assuming that in terms chapter 784 of the Laws of 1941 applied to these petitioners, the statute violates the Constitution. No opinion.
Concur: LEHMAN, Ch. J., LOUGHRAN, FINCH, RIPPEY, LEWIS, CONWAY and DESMOND, JJ.