Conboy v. Iowa City
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Johnson District Court. This was an action brought by Iowa City against Peter Conboy, claiming of Mm $100, and charging that the said defendant, on the first day of December, 1854, did keep a billiard table within the corporate limits of Iowa City, where games of skill or chance were played, without first having obtained a license so to do, contrary to the form of the ordinance in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of’the said Iowa…
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Appeal from the Johnson District Court. This was an action brought by Iowa City against Peter Conboy, claiming of Mm $100, and charging that the said defendant, on the first day of December, 1854, did keep a billiard table within the corporate limits of Iowa City, where games of skill or chance were played, without first having obtained a license so to do, contrary to the form of the ordinance in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of’the said Iowa City, whereby an action hath accrued to said city, to have and recover of said defendant the said sum of one hundred…
1Opinion of the CourtIsbell, J.
The first question in the proper order of considering this case, is that raised by the third assignment of error, namely : “ The District Court hacl no jurisdiction of apjseals o'r writ of error from the judgment or decision of the mayor of Iowa City under the city ordinances.” Erom the fact that by the charter of the city (Laws of 1853, 101, § 12), the mayor is vested with exclusive original jurisdiction, for the violation of the ordinances of the city, and by section 13, appeals are allowed from the judgment and decisions of the mayor to the District Court, in the same cases, time and…
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