State v. Wordin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Prosecution for a violation of an ordinance of the city of Bridgeport; brought before the City Court of that city, and, by appeal of the defendant, to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and in that court tried to the jury, upon the plea of “ not guilty,” before Sanford, J. The jury returned a verdict of “ guilty ” and the defendant appealed for error in the charge of the court. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
'The' legislature in the charter granted to the city of Bridgeport conferred power upon the court of common council to establish ordinances “relative to the cleanliness and health of the city;”' also, “relative to any and all other subjects that shall be deemed necessary and proper for the protection and preservation of the health, property and lives of the citizens.” Under the power thus given the court of common council ordained that “every physician, or person acting as such, who shall have any patient within the limits of said city sick with small-pox or varioloid or other infectious or…
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