City of Hudson v. Granger
New York Supreme Court
This is an appeal from a judgment of the City Oourt of the city of Hudson, acquitting the defendant of a charge of having violated a city ordinance, and is entitled in the return" as above. A certificate of disqualification having been duly filed by the county judge the appeal comes here for hearing and decision.
1Opinion of the CourtFursman, J.
The charge against the defendant is „the violation of an ordinance of the city of Hudson, forbidding any person not designated or employed.- for that purpose by the common council from interfering in any manner with the fire alarm system of the city. The proceeding taken, before the city judge was in no just sense a civil action. It was not of such a character that a judgment could be rendered, and an execution issued thereon as in -a civil action. The whole conduct of .the case from beginning to end followed the methods of criminal procedure, and was not in the least in conformity to the…
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