City of Mason City v. Morgan Barngrover

Pleasants, J,

This suit was commenced November 15, 1886, before the police magistrate against appellee for the violation of an ordinance of the city approved November 23, 1885, and duly published, as follows: “ All fences made and constructed on any street or alley within the limits of Mason City, in whole or in part of barbed wire, is (are) hereby declared to be a nuisance (nuisances), and any person or persons who shall build such fence or neglect or refuse to remove such fence, or such part thereof as is made of barbed wire, after this ordinance shall take effect, shall be fined in any sum…