A suit against the town of Woodbury, N. Y. to test an ordinance profiting the establishment of a sanitarium for tubercular patients in that town, has been brought by the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society. The suit is brought to test a law prohibiting establishment of the sanitarium.
The case is to come up in the Supreme Court of Goshen, N. Y. in February. If upheld, the law would exclude any like institution in Woodbury.
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