Town of Hedrick v. Lanz
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Keokuk District Court. — Hon. John F. Talbott, Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction based upon a violation of a city ordinance prohibiting the driving of traction engines over street crossings without planking the same.
1Opinion of the CourtGaynor, J.
1. Municipal CORPORATIONS : ordinance: validity : contravening policy Of state. The defendant was arrested for a violation of an ordinance in the city of Hedrick, tried and convicted, and from the judgment of conviction, appeals to this court.
In the information upon which he was convicted, it is alleged that on the 20th day of June, 1913, he wilfully and unlawfully drove a traction engine over, upon, and across a certain street crossing, without placing, and keeping continuously placed, a plank or planks under the wheels of said traction engine while driving the same over the crossing.
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