Carroll v. City of Lynchburg

The plaintiff in error was summoned before the mayor, and fined for building a wooden building outside of the fire limits within the city of Lynchburg, in violation of the fourth section of the ordinance of the city, which provides as follows:

*804“ (4) No person shall erect any building in that portion of the city outside of the fire limits, and within thirty feet of any building not his own property, except of such materials as are allowed for buildings within said limits.” The plaintiff in error constructed an addition of another story to a house already built of materials prohibited by the…