People v. Milne

Crain, J.:

The defendant appeals from a judgment of a Magistrate’s Court convicting him of a violation of article 3, section 1, of the public hack ordinance of the city of New York, adopted May *46527, 1918, approved June 2, 1913. The material part of this ordinance provides that no public hack shall ply for hire upon the streets of the city of New York without first obtaining a license from the bureau of licenses.

The complainant was deputy chief of the license bureau. He testified in substance that at one twenty a. m. April 7, 1914, he saw a yellow taxicab standing at the curb on the westerly side…