People v. Travis

The ordinance adopted by the village of Port Dickinson on April 7, 1924, limiting the speed of motor vehicles to one mile in three minutes, did not take effect as law until an official copy had been on file thirty days with the State Tax Commission (Highway Law; Cons. Laws, ch. 25, § 288, as amd. by L. 1921, ch. 580).

The People were under a duty to establish the filing of such a copy in accordance with the statute, and their case against the defendant was insufficiently made out upon the trial in that evidence of filing was omitted, though the omission was brought to. the notice of the trial…