City of Camas v. Kiggins

— This is a prosecution by the plaintiff, a city of the third class, against the defendants, Kiggins and McGill, for an alleged violation by them of an ordinance of the city prescribing the fire limits therein and the kind of buildings that may be constructed within those limits. The ordinance (No. 95), after defining the fire limits, in so far as we need here notice its language, reads as follows:

‘ ‘ Section No. 5. All buildings which shall be erected within that part of the said fire-limits lying between Beeson and Columbia streets shall be built of fire proof material on the outside, and…