People v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
California Supreme Court
MOTION to dismiss an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County. J. W. Hughes, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Wm. B. Bosley, Thos. J. Straub, and L. T. Hatfield, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
In this case the respondent moves to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that the supreme court has no appellate jurisdiction of the case.
The defendant was convicted in the police court of the city of Sacramento, of the offense of violating an ordinance of that city, and was sentenced to pay a fine of four hundred dollars. The ordinance required every person or corporation operating a street-railroad in the city to sprinkle with water a sufficient portion of the street in and near its tracks to prevent the motion of the cars from raising dust, and declared that a violation thereof should be a…
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