City of Rochester v. . West
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial departinent, entered May 17,1898, affirming a judgment of the Monroe County Court, which affirmed a judgment of the Police Court of the city of Rochester convicting the defendant of a misdemeanor.
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Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial departinent, entered May 17,1898, affirming a judgment of the Monroe County Court, which affirmed a judgment of the Police Court of the city of Rochester convicting the defendant of a misdemeanor. The defendant is the local manager of a corporation known, as the Rochester Bill Posting Company and was arrested April 30, 1897, charged with the violation of sections eight and nine of an ordinance of the city of Rochester, entitled “ An ordinance relating to billposting and billboards,”…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
Whether this appeal should be sustained depends wholly upon the validity or invalidity of an ordinance of the plaintiff which forbids the erection, within its limits, of billboards more than six feet in height without the consent of the common council. By its charter the plaintiff was authorized .“ to license and regulate billposters and bill distributors and sign advertising, and to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which any such license shall be granted, and to prohibit all unlicensed persons from acting in such capacity.” (Ch. 14, Laws 1880, § 40, subdiv. 21; as amended, Laws 1894,…
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