Legal Opinion

Walker v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided August 15, 1905PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 20th day of June, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,775, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of June, 1904, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.

1Opinion of the Court

Rich, J.;

The main questions presented on this appeal by counsel for the appellant have been decided adversely to their contention by the Court of Appeals in Landau v. City of New York (180 N. Y. 48), in which it was held that the adoption of a resolution by the defend*352ant’s board of aldermen suspending its ordinances relating to the discharge of fireworks within its limits, so far as they applied to political meetings and parades, for a specified time, subject to such restrictions and safeguards as the police department might deter- . mine as necessary, was tantamount to -an invitation to, and…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Speir v. . City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
  2. Landau v. . City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
  3. Leonard v. City of HornellsvilleAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Sroka v. HallidaySupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1916
  2. De Agramonte v. City of Mount VernonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908

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