State v. Wightman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Prosecution for a violation of a city ordinance forbidding certain projecting signs over streets and sidewalks, brought to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas in New London County and tried to the jury before Noyes, J. ; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtTorraroe, C. J.
The charter of the city of New London empowers the common council of the city to make ordinances “ to regulate or prohibit the placing, erecting, and keeping of signs, awnings, or other things upon or over the sidewalks, public streets, and highways.” 11 Special Laws, p. 685. Under the power thus given, the common council made an ordinance which reads as follows: “No person shall place or keep any sign projecting over any street or sidewalk at a height less than eight feet above the same, nor unless the same shall be attached, and parallel to the building, and projecting not more than three…
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