Case Name: City of Buffalo, App'lt, v. Maurice Marion, Resp't
Court: Buffalo Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-07-30
Citations: 69 N.Y. St. Rep. 170
Docket Number: 
Parties: City of Buffalo, App’lt, v. Maurice Marion, Resp’t.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 69
Pages: 170–170

Head Matter:
City of Buffalo, App’lt, v. Maurice Marion, Resp’t.
(Buffalo Superior Court, General Term,
Filed July 30, 1895.)
Auctioneers—License by city.
The licensing of auctioneers and the regulation of their conduct as such are, within this state, within the power of the legislature, and statutes and ordinances for that purpose are valid.
Appeal from a judgment, dismissing the complaint.
Charles L. Feldman, for app’lt; M. A. Gear on, for resp’t.

Opinion:
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 penalty of $50. The defendant violated the ordinance; and this action is brought to recover 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. Rev. St.(Banks & Bros.' 8th ed.) pt. 2, chap. 17, tit. 1; People ex rel. Schwab v. Grant, 126 N. Y. 473; 35 St. Rep. 596.
The judgment appealed from should be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to abide the event
All concur.