City of Metropolis v. Gibbons

The city of Metropolis recovered a judgment before a justice of the peace against A. J. Gibbons for violations of a city ordinance, from which he appealed to the circuit court of Massac county, where there was a trial by the court without a jury and a finding and judgment in favor of the defendant, the court holding the section of the ordinance imposing a fine for its violation to be void. The judge having certified that the validity of a city ordinance was involved and that in his opinion the public interest required that the appeal or writ of error should be taken directly to the Supreme…