King v. Davenport
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
The city of Jacksonville, in this State, having power, by ordinance, to establish fire limits and to declare the building or repairing of buildings with combustible materials within the fire limits a nuisance, its city council did, by ordinance, establish fire limits, and enacted that any building built or repaired with other than fire-proof material, or any roof or gutter placed on any building, the outer surface of which was made with materials other than fire-proof, if within the fire limits, and done without permission, should be deemed a nuisance, and that if the offender, upon…
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- Yates v. MilwaukeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- Hart v. Mayor of AlbanyCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1832
- Blair v. ForehandMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Inhabitants of Watertown v. MayoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
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