City of Brooklyn v. Brooklyn City & Newtown Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The City of Brooklyn, from a judgment of the County Court of the county of Kings, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 10th day of November, 1896, reversing a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace of the city of Brooklyn.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This action was brought to recover a penalty for a violation of the following city ordinance: “ Section 1. Rate of speed. No street surface railroad car operated by electricity in any of the streets, avenues or public places of the city of Brooklyn, shall be run at a rate of speed to exceed six miles an hour within a radius of one and one-half miles from the city hall, or within a radius of two miles from the Broadway ferries, nor in any other part of the first twenty-eight wards of said city at a rate of speed to exceed eight miles an hour. Penalty. Any corporation whose officers,…
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