People v. Wilson
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from court of sessions, Ulster county. Prosecution against Orson M. Wilson for violating an ordinance of the city of Kingston. Prom a judgment of the county sessions affirming a conviction and sentence by the recorder’s court of said city defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLandon, J.
The defendant was convicted- before the recorder of the city of Kingston of the violation of an ordinance of the city prohibiting any person from drawing or transporting a load or burden weighing from 2£ to 5 tons over any macadamized, paved, or top-dressed street of the city, in any vehicle having a tire less than four inches wide on its wheels. The defendant urges that the charter of the city does not authorize the making of such an ordinance. The power is not expressly conferred. But the charter (chapter 150, Laws 1872, § 91) provides that “the common council shall have the powers and…
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