People v. New York Edison Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The People of the State of New York, from an order of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, Part One, Borough of Manhattan, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 14th day of July, 1913, allowing a demurrer to an information charging defendant with a violation of section 181 of the Sanitary Code. (See Code of Ordinances of the City of New York, pt. 1, chap. 14.)
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The information charges that on the 4th day of April, 1913, the defendant, a domestic corporation, was in possession and had the management and control of the premises extending from First avenue between Thirty-eighth and Fortieth streets easterly to the East river, and of stationary engines, furnaces and boilers which had been installed in the building on said premises and were used by defendant, and willfully violated said section 181 of the Sanitary Code — the provisions of which are set forth in the information in hæc verba — by causing, suffering and allowing “ dense smoke…
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