Baker v. Town of Normal

This was an action, brought in the name of appellee, against appellant, for a penalty for a violation of an ordinance of that village prohibiting all persons from hitching or fastening any horse to any shade tree in any street or alley.

On the trial, it appeared that appellant had hitched his horse to a shade tree standing in one of the public streets of the town of Normal, but it further appeared that this shade tree and others were planted in front of the lot owned by Baker, by the owner of the property (from whom Baker bought the lot), and that, at the time of the planting of these trees,…