California Reduction Co. v. Sanitary Reduction Works
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. Thé: Board of Supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco, by ordinance adopted February 17,1896, and known as Order No. 2965, granted to F. E. Sharon, his associates and assigns, the sole and exclusive right and-.privilege, for a term of fifty years, to cremate and destroy within that city and county, by crematories or by a process of reduction, house refuse, dirt, ashes, cinders, sludge, crockery,…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. Thé: Board of Supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco, by ordinance adopted February 17,1896, and known as Order No. 2965, granted to F. E. Sharon, his associates and assigns, the sole and exclusive right and-.privilege, for a term of fifty years, to cremate and destroy within that city and county, by crematories or by a process of reduction, house refuse, dirt, ashes, cinders, sludge, crockery, tins, bones and other like matter, dead animals;(not provided for by contract or franchise theretofore 'granted), putrid…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Haelan
The defendants insist that the ordinances in question áre invalid for the want of power in the Board of Supervisors to adopt them. This objection does not seem to be well taken. By the California constitution of 1849 it was provided that “the Legislature shall have power to provide for the election of a Board of Supervisors in each county, and those supervisors shall jointly and individually perform such duties as may be prescribed by law. ” Subsequently, by. an act approved April 25, 1863, it'was provided that “the Board of Supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco shall have…
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