State v. Stowe

This prosecution was commenced in the recorder’s court of the city of Charlotte and tried de novo on appeal to the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County. From the latter court the case is brought here to test the validity of a “cow ordinance” of the city of Charlotte, the pertinent provisions of which are as follows:

“Section 1. It shall be unlawful to keep or maintain any cow or cows on any lot within any pen or stable within the corporate limits of the city of Charlotte within a radius of 50 feet of any dwelling,” etc.(The remainder of this section deals with the kind of pen or stable to be…