Napman v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to tlie Recorder’s Court of the City of Detroit. John Napman was charged before the Recorder’s Court of the City of Detroit on the complaint of Patrick Keenan “that at the City of Detroit, aforesaid, on the seventeenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, within the corporate limits of said city, one John Napman, a duly licensed omnibus agent, on the arrival of railroad ears in the city of Detroit, did then and there unlawfully and…
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Certiorari to tlie Recorder’s Court of the City of Detroit. John Napman was charged before the Recorder’s Court of the City of Detroit on the complaint of Patrick Keenan “that at the City of Detroit, aforesaid, on the seventeenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, within the corporate limits of said city, one John Napman, a duly licensed omnibus agent, on the arrival of railroad ears in the city of Detroit, did then and there unlawfully and wilfully approach within twenty feet of the depot, when said cars had stopped running, within fifteen minutes thereafter,…
1Per curiam
Inasmuch as the charter of Detroit provides that the printed volumes of ordinances shall be evidence in all courts, we think that in all suits brought for the violation of them, we are bound to examine the book, and are not precluded from doing so by the failure to make copies of them parts of the record. The object of the statute was to put them, as to city matters, on a similar footing with statutes — so far as relates to the method of proving their contents.—Charter of Detroit, Chap. 11 § 13.
The ordinances relied upon to sustain this conviction all relate to the conduct of omnibus agents…
2Cited by16 opinions
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- Mills v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1900
- People v. QuiderMichigan Supreme Court · 1912
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