Horton v. Old Colony Bill Posting Co.

These complaints are for the violation of an ordinance of the city of Providence, regulating out-door advertising. One charges that the defendant “did unlawfully use for the display of out-door advertising, a certain structure, to wit: a billboard, located upon and over the* Union street side of the roof of that certain building situated on the northeasterly corner of Fountain and Union streets,”' etc. (within the first building district of said city), “said structure not being constructed throughout of incombustible material as such term when referred to as a structural material is defined…