Legal Opinion

Treasurer of City of Elizabeth v. Lytton

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided December 13, 1912Published

On certiorari.

1Opinion of the Court

*372The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

The prosecutor, Nellie Lytton, was convicted in the Elizabeth police court of publicly “dancing and performing feats of uncommon dexterit}7 and agility of -the body,” for gain or reward, in a ball in Elizabeth, without first having obtained a license for that purpose, contrary to section 190 of an ordinance of that city.

The writ brings under review the legality of that conviction. Many reasons-for reversal were filed, but counsel for the prosecutor has condensed them into one proposition which he has thus expressed in his brief: “The…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sharp v. SweeneySupreme Court of New Jersey · 1907

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