Pye v. Peterson

Gould, Associate Justice.

The appellee brought this suit to enjoin the enforcement of an ordinance of the city of Havasota establishing fire limits, declaring wooden buildings thereafter erected within these limits to be nuisances, and providing for the removal of such buildings and the punishment of parties erecting them. The injunction was granted, and, on the final hearing, was made perpetual, and from this judgment the city has prosecuted an appeal. Whether, under its charter, the city was empowered to pass such an ordinance, is the sole question presented for our consideration.

The charter…