Case ID: ill-app_210/html/0106-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

City of Chicago, Appellee, v. Mrs. Henry Wahl, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 23,268.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Municipal corporations, § 867
      
      —when presumed evidence supports finding for violation of ordinance. In the absence of an ordinance made the basis of a complaint preserved in the record, the sufficiency of the evidence to support the finding in a prosecution for violation of a city ordinance will be presumed.
    
      Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Courtney, Judge, presiding.
    Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1917.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed March 13, 1918.
    Statement of the Case.
    Prosecution by City of Chicago,. plaintiff, against Mrs. Henry Wahl, defendant, charging defendant with making, aiding, countenancing and assisting in making an improper noise, disturbance, breach of the peace, and diversion tending to a breach of the peace,. in violation of section 2012 of the Revised Municipal Code of plaintiff. Prom a judgment finding defendant guilty, on trial by the court without a jury, and fining her one dollar, defendant appeals.
    P. C. Harbour, for appellant.
    Samuel A. Ettelson and Harry B. Miller, for appellee; Daniel Webster, of counsel.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Thomson

delivered the opinion of the court.