Show < STOiNECUTTERS > LAV jT j Nevj York Appellate Court Decides That Act Is Inoperative New York Jan 1By an opinion by the Appellate division yesterday thc act of 1SS5 known generally as the Stonecutters lawP If i made inoperative inopera-tive The statute enacted five years ago required that all stone used In municipal work in this State except paving blocks and crushed slohcs should be worked dressed and carved within tho boundaries of the State The opinion was based upon an ac lion brought In the Supreme court by Ralph J Treat a coiUiactor to ob lalu 321S ns an Installment on sewer work Comptroller Color declined lo pay on the ground that Tiv > at was not using stone cut In f thin State and he was sustained by the lower court The rclutor contended that the atone law was in contravention of the commerce com-merce laws of the Constitution of the United Stales and void Ho al leged thai the clause In the contract Inaerled In pursuance of the statute lo carry out the provision Was In con I flictwith the act of Congress of July 2 1900 declaring Illegal various contracts con-tracts combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States Ho made the further fur-ther claim that the Hlatute Is In conflict con-flict with the State Oonslllnllon find the fourtonlh amendment of the United Stale Constitution |