Cook v. State

This was an action commenced before a justice of the peace upon an affidavit based upon the statute of 1889 (Acts 1889, p. 378, §2047 Burns 1894, §6600 Horner 1897) providing as follows: “It shall be unlawful for any person to haul over any turnpikes or gravel roads at any time when the same is [are] thawing through, or is [are], by reason of wet weather, in condition to be cut up and injured by heavy hauling, a load on a narrow tired wagon of more than twenty hundred pounds, or on a broad tired wagon of more than twenty-five hundred pounds, and any person violating the provisions of this act…