
    Hilliard Hotel Company, Appellant, v. The City of New York et al., Respondents.
    
      Hilliard Hotel Co. v. City of Hew York, 159 App. Div. 888, affirmed.
    (Argued February 25, 1914;
    decided June 9, 1914.)
    Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 9, 1914, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion to continue pendente lite a preliminary injunction restraining the defendants from enforcing the provisions of the public hack ordinance in the city of New York.
    The following questions were certified: “I. May public hack stands, as defined in the public hack ordinance, adopted by the board of aldermen of the city of New York, and approved by the mayor of said city June 2, 1913, be located and maintained alongside the curb in front of and adjacent to the property of the plaintiff mentioned in the complaint and known as the Vanderbilt Hotel, in the city of New York, and used by the plaintiff for hotel purposes, without the consent and against the protest of the plaintiff ? II. Is section 3 of article V of the public hack ordinance, in so far as it attempts to authorize the location and maintenance of public hack stands alongside the curb adjacent to the property leased to and occupied and used by plaintiff as a hotel, without the consent and against the protest of the plaintiff, a valid and lawful enactment ? ”
    
      Edgar T. Brackett, Henry Bennett Leary and W. U. Goodbody for appellant.
    
      Frank L. Polk, Corporation Counsel (Terence Farley of counsel), for respondents.
   Order affirmed, with costs, and questions certified answered in the affirmative on opinion in Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Co. v. City of New York (212 N. Y. 97).

Concur: "Willard Bartlett, Oh. J., Werner, His-cock, Chase, Collin, Hogan and Miller, JJ.  