State v. Pratt
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the municipal court of Minneapolis, Dickinson, J., whereby he was convicted of violating an ordinance of the board of park commissioners of that city prohibiting the cutting and defacing of ornamental shade trees in the city streets without permission of the board.
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Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the municipal court of Minneapolis, Dickinson, J., whereby he was convicted of violating an ordinance of the board of park commissioners of that city prohibiting the cutting and defacing of ornamental shade trees in the city streets without permission of the board. The removal of a house from one part of a city to another is not an uncommon occurrence; it can be accomplished only by the use of the public highways; and when authority to use them for that purpose is conferred by the body exercising the primary control over them, it cannot be that it is…
1Opinion of the Court
COLLINS, J,
This is an appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of the city of Minneapolis pronouncing defendant guilty of violating an ordinance of the board of park commissioners of that city. The facts upon which' the conviction rests are undisputed, and, briefly stated, are as follows: Defendant was a house mover, and obtained from the city council, as he was obliged to do, a p'ermit authorizing him to move a house through the streets some twelve blocks. While moving it in the usual and customary manner he cut and removed a branch from a live ornamental shade tree, which stood in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. RohartSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1901