The plaintiff appeals from an order dismissing his complaint as insufficient, in an action for a declaratory judgment seeking an adjudication that the book "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller is not "obscene" within the meaning of section 1141 of the Penal Law. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff conducted a bookstore in the City of Rochester and that he desired to sell the book but that the defendant, the District Attorney of Monroe County...
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