City of Buffalo v. Preston
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Josephine Preston, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 28th day of July, 1902, upon an order made at the Erie Special Term and entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of July, 1902, affirming upon appeal a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Buffalo in favor of the plaintiff, entered , on the 12th day of March, 1902, upon the verdict of a…
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Appeal by the defendant, Josephine Preston, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 28th day of July, 1902, upon an order made at the Erie Special Term and entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of July, 1902, affirming upon appeal a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Buffalo in favor of the plaintiff, entered , on the 12th day of March, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Hiscock, J.:
This action was brought to recover of defendant a fine because of her alleged violation of certain ordinances of the city of Buffalo which prohibited the keeping of houses of ill-fame as being disorderly conduct. There seems to have been no doubt upon the trial in the Municipal Court but that the evidence warranted the conclusion that defendant had been guilty of the conduct charged. At any rate, no question of that character is presented or raised upon this appeal. The proposition, however, is strongly urged that the ordinances upon which, if at all, this action must rest, did…
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