Case v. Mayor of Mobile
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe City Court of Mobile. TfieA-béfofé the ’Iion-V AtfexCM'cK'iNSirRT.' Tjpii'- appellant .was. fined‘;i$50i by ‘the» maydr of the" city of Mobile, for an allegediviolation-ofr amofdinance, ;pim bibiting tbe selling of liquor without a license; and removed tbe proceedings, by appeal, into the city court, where tbe following complaint was filed against him: “Mayor, Aldermen, an dr Common Council of Mobile/ Plaintiff claims of defend-ys.
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Appeal from tbe City Court of Mobile. TfieA-béfofé the ’Iion-V AtfexCM'cK'iNSirRT.' Tjpii'- appellant .was. fined‘;i$50i by ‘the» maydr of the" city of Mobile, for an allegediviolation-ofr amofdinance, ;pim bibiting tbe selling of liquor without a license; and removed tbe proceedings, by appeal, into the city court, where tbe following complaint was filed against him: “Mayor, Aldermen, an dr Common Council of Mobile/ Plaintiff claims of defend-ys. ( ant $50, for violation of the John Case. ) ordinance above set forth. “Plaintiff claims the sum of $50 as a fine, for that the defendant, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, C. J.
In declaring on a by-law, the liability of the defendant must distinctly appear. As the appellee in the present case is a municipal, or public corporation, the courts of this State will take judicial notice of its charter, and of its power to make by-laws; but not of the by-laws made by it. In a complaint for a penalty under. one of its by-laws, the by-law must be set forth, and the-breaeh of it, and the right of the plaintiff to' sue for the • penalty. — Company of Feltmakers v. Davis, 1 Bos. & Pul. 98; 1 Saund. Pl. & Ev. 324; Comyn’s Dig., title, Pleader, (2 W, 11.)
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