Case ID: misc_13/html/0639-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The City of Buffalo, Appellant, v. Maurice Marion, Respondent.
    (Superior Court oí Buffalo—General Term,
    July, 1895.)
    An ordinance prohibiting the sale of watches at auction after six o’clock in the evening is authorized by a provision of a city charter giving the common council power to enact ordinances to license and regulate auctioneers.
    
      This is an appeal by the city from a judgment of the Municinal Court dismissing its complaint against the defendant.
    
      Charles L. Feldmcm, for the city.
    
      Mr. Gea/ron, for the respondent.
   White, J.

The charter of, the city of Buffalo provides, among other things, that the common council shall, from time to time, enact ordinances to license and regulate auctioneers.

Pursuant to that provision of the charter the common council has enacted an ordinance prohibiting the sale of watches at auction after six o’clock in the evening under a jienalty of fifty dollars.

The defendant violated. the ordinance, and this action is brought to recover the penalty.

The defendant claims that the ordinance is void, and the" court below so decided.

The ordinance in question follows the charter and is authorized by it.

The licensing of auctioneers and the regulation of their conduct as such has always been held within this state to be within the power of the legislature, and that statutes and ordinances for that purpose are valid. Chap. 17, tit. 1, pt. 2, B. S., Banks & Bros. 8th ed.; People ex rel. Schwab v. Grant, 126 N. Y. 473.

The judgment appealed from should be reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to abide the event.

Titus, Oh. J., and Hatch, J., concur.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, costs to abide event.