Taylor v. Holmes

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, imposing a fine for the violation of a mandatory order of the court. The court ordered the defendant, appellant herein, to cover all garbage upon the close of each day’s operations with a compacted layer of earth to a minimum depth of six inches.

The defendant concedes that he violated the court’s order, but contends that his failure to cover at the sanitary fill on the evening of February 11, 1953, was due to the fact that one of the drivers engaged by him did not get the word that a truck load of rubbish was…