City of Grand Rapids v. De Vries
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from superior court of Grand Rapids; Newnham, J. Reindert De Vries was convicted of violating an ordinance regulating tbe disposition of garbage.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
Respondent was convicted under a complaint charging that he ‘ ‘ did unlawfully and willfully engage in collecting and removing in open vessels and in an open wagon garbage, offal, and other refuse matter from various residences in the city of Grand Rapids, without being authorized so to do by a license for that purpose, issued by the mayor of said city; contrary to the provisions of an ordinance,” etc. The cause was tried before a jury in the superior court, and a verdict of guilty found.
The ordinance under which the prosecution was had reads as follows:
“Section 1. The board of health of the…
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