City of Indianapolis v. Ryan

Appellees brought this action for an injunction, and, after a trial, recovered judgment enjoining appellants from interfering with the plaintiffs “in the conduct of their business of receiving, collecting, hauling or transporting food products, such as are left from the tables, and from the preparation of foods,” from certain specified restaurants.

A motion for a new trial was overruled, and upon this ruling error is assigned.

Indianapolis is a city of the first class. Section 48-4285 Burns Ann. St. 1933, section 11563 Baldwin’s Ind. St. 1934, defines the duties of the department of sanitation…