Joseph Chamberlain v. City of Litchfield
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Suit for a violation of an ordinance. In the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, on appeal from a justice of the peace. The Hon. Robert B. Shirley, Judge, presiding. Trial by jury; verdict of guilty; appeal by defendants. Heard in this court at the November term. 1894,
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pleasants
Oh a trial by jury upon appeal from a justice of the peace, appellants were found guilty of the violation of an alleged ordinance of the city of Litchfield, as follows :
Be it ordained, etc. Section 1. That after the 20th day of May, A. D. 1893, it shall be unlawful for the owner of, or any person having control over any cow or cows, cattle, horses, mare or mules, to drive or permit the same to be driven upon any of the public streets of the city, along which the residents thereof shall have improved the same by the constructing in whole or in part along and outside the sidewalks thereof, of…
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