People ex rel. Hart v. Demerest

This is a writ of certiorari, bringing up for review the deposition upon which the relator and others were committed by a city magistrate. The relator, together with other persons, is a member of a baseball club called the Cedar Baseball Club, and played a game of nine innings with another club called the Emerald . Baseball Club on Sunday afternoon in Bronx Oval, an inclosed ground, sur*288rounded by a fence eight feet high. The ground is adjacent to the highway, but not observable from the highway, and is about 1,000 feet from the nearest house and a quarter of a mile from the nearest place of…