De Queen v. Fenton
Supreme Court of Arkansas
1. Municipal corporations — ordinance fori impounding stock. — Under Kirby’s Digest, § § 545°, 5451, impowering cities and towns to prevent the running at large within their corporate limits of stock and cattle, and to provide for the impounding of same, municipal ordinances providing for the enforcement of these statutory provisions are valid police regulations.
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1. Municipal corporations — ordinance fori impounding stock. — Under Kirby’s Digest, § § 545°, 5451, impowering cities and towns to prevent the running at large within their corporate limits of stock and cattle, and to provide for the impounding of same, municipal ordinances providing for the enforcement of these statutory provisions are valid police regulations. (Page 523.) 2. Injunction — violation of municipal ordinance. — The violation of municipal ordinances prohibiting the running at large of stock and imposing punishment therefor is an infraction of the criminal law, which equity has…
1Opinion of the CourtFrauenthal, J.
This was a suit brought by the city of De Queen seeking to enjoin the defendants below from permitting stock and cattle owned by them from running at large within the limits of said city. In the complaint it was alleged that two ordinances had been passed by the proper authorities of said city prohibiting the running at large of cattle and other stock within its corporate limits; one of these ordinances declaring it to be unlawful for the owner of such stock or cattle to allow same to run at large in said city, and providing for penalizing the owner and impounding said stock or cattle; and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- State v. VaughanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1906
- Benton v. WillisSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
- State v. LindsaySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1879
- Rider v. LeathermanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1908
- Smith v. DodsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1885
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