Legal Opinion

Ex parte Heilbron

California Supreme Court

Decided September 17, 1884No. 20,014PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Petition for habeas corpus. The facts appear in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

The Court.

The petitioners were arrested upon a charge of violating an ordinance of the city of Sacramento, passed June 27, 1872, which declares it to be unlawful “for any person to slaughter any animal within the city, or to erect, maintain, or use, or cause to be erected, maintained, or used, within the city, any house, shed, or other building, as a slaughter-house, or to dress or clean any slaughtered animal within the city.”

The act of the legislature of the State incorporating the city, approved April 25,1863, gave power to the board of trustees to make ordinances to control and regulate…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Ex parte Smith & KeatingCalifornia Supreme Court · 1869
  2. Ex parte ShraderCalifornia Supreme Court · 1867
  3. Johnson v. SimontonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1872
  4. Ex parte CasinelloCalifornia Supreme Court · 1881

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Odd Fellows' Cemetery Ass'n v. City & County of San FranciscoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1903
  2. City of Portland v. MeyerOregon Supreme Court · 1898
  3. In re LinehanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1887
  4. In Re JonesCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1943
  5. City of Elkhart v. LipschitzIndiana Supreme Court · 1905

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