People v. Verity

The defendant is charged with operating a truck on a posted “No Thru Trucking ” street. He now moves to dismiss the information, because it fails to set forth facts constituting a violation of law.

For some time in this county, various municipalities have erected signs reading: “No Thru Trucking.” If these signs are to be literally understood, they mean that no truck may use the street, regardless of its size and weight for thru passage.

Neither a town, nor a village has the absolute power to exclude vehicles from its streets. Whatever powers municipalities have in regard to regulating the use…