Legal Opinion
Bowers v. City of Indianapolis
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided October 11, 1907No. 21,053PublishedCited by 9 opinions
Prom Marion Circuit Court (15,615); Henry Clay Allen, Judge. Prosecution by the City of Indianapolis against Prank Bowers. Prom a judgment of conviction, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGillett, J.
Appellant commenced this action to recover *106for the violation of an ordinance. Omitting the penalty clause, the section charged to have been violated is as follows :
“The emission of dense black or'gray smoke from any smokestack or chimney used in connection with any stationary steam boiler, locomotive, or furnace of any description within the corporate limits of the city of Indianapolis, in any apartment house, office building, hotel, theater, place of public amusement, school building, institution, locomotive, or any other structure in the city of Indianapolis, or in any building used as a…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Baumgartner v. HastyIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- North Chicago City Railway Co. v. Town of Lake ViewIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
- City of St. Louis v. Edward Heitzeberg Packing & Provision Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1897
- Gregory v. . the City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1869
- Harrison v. Mayor of BaltimoreCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1843
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Bd. of Health of Weehawken Tp. v. NY Central R. Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1950
- State ex rel. Krittenbrink v. WithnellNebraska Supreme Court · 1912
- Wabash Railroad v. GretzingerIndiana Supreme Court · 1914
- People v. New York Edison Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
- Penn-Dixie Cement Corp. v. City of KingsportTennessee Supreme Court · 1949
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