Bush v. Seabury
New York Supreme Court
IN error, on certiorari, from a justice’s court. The plaintiffs in error, as trustees of the village of Poughkeepsie, brought an action of debt against the defendant, fo; five penalties or forfeitures, under the act of the legislature, entitled “ An act to vest certain powers in the freeholders and inhabitants of the village of Poughkeepsie.passed the 8th April, 1801, (seas. 24. c. 182.) and a certain by-law of the corporation of the village of Poughkeepsie, entitled “ A…
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IN error, on certiorari, from a justice’s court. The plaintiffs in error, as trustees of the village of Poughkeepsie, brought an action of debt against the defendant, fo; five penalties or forfeitures, under the act of the legislature, entitled “ An act to vest certain powers in the freeholders and inhabitants of the village of Poughkeepsie.passed the 8th April, 1801, (seas. 24. c. 182.) and a certain by-law of the corporation of the village of Poughkeepsie, entitled “ A lav/ to regulate the public market of the village of Poughkeepsie, and to prevent forestalling the same,” passed June 12,…
1Per curiam
1’he act incorporating the village of Poughkeepsie, authorizes the trustees to make by-laws, relative to public markets within the said village, &c, and relative to any thing whatsoever that may concern the public apd good government of the said village, but no such by-laws shall extend to the regulating or ascertaining the prices of any commodities or articles of provision, except the article of bread, that may be offered for sale.” Without this special exception, it would seem that even the regulation of the price of provisions might, in the opinion of tire legislature, have been included…
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