City of Ottawa v. Hayne

On the morning of the I'Oth day of March, 1902, certain representatives of the Majestic Manufacturing Company, a foreign corporation, suspended á cloth advertising banner, by means of ropes, across Main street, in the appellant city, from the third story of a building occupied by the Pound-stone-Refior Hardware Company to the roof of a building on the opposite side of the street. In order to keep the banner smooth, a guy-rope was attached to the lower edge thereof, some seven or eight feet in front of the Poundstone-Refior building, and the rope was brought down and made fast to an iron…