Case Name: Hays v. The Village of St. Marys
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1899-10-20
Citations: 55 Ohio St. 197
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hays v. The Village of St. Marys.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 55
Pages: 197–198

Head Matter:
Hays v. The Village of St. Marys.
Municipal Corporation — Powers of — Regulation as to explosives stored in village— Validity of ordinance — Sections 8963 and 8853, Revised Statutes.
An ordinance of a village prohibiting the storage within its limits and the transportation along its streets of dynamite or nitroglycerine in quantities larger than five quarts, being within the power conferred upon cities and'villages by section 1692, Revised Statutes, and not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 6953 or 8853-7, Revised Statutes, is valid.
(Decided October 20, 1899.)
Error to the Circuit Court of Auglaize County.
George JJ. Phelps, for plaintiff in error.
John T. Schoonover, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
By the Court:
On a trial before the mayor of the village of St. Mary's the plaintiff in error was found guilty of violating an ordinance of the village and adjudged to pay a fine of fifty dollars and the costs of prosecution. On successive petitions in error this judgment was affirmed by the court of common pleas and the circuit court. A reversal of those judgments is sought here.
No ground for such reversal is assigned except that the ordinance under which the plaintiff in error was convicted is invalid for want of power in the village council to pass. it. The substantial portion of the ordinance is as follows:
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Village Council of the Village of St. Marys, Ohio, that it shall be unlawful to store or keep in larger quantities than five quarts in any one place, any dynamite nitro-glyeerine, or other like explosives within the corporate limits of the Village of St. Marys, Ohio, or to carry, convey or transport the said ex plosives, or any of them, over, along or through any streets, alleys, ways oV public grounds of said village in larger quantities than five quarts in any one vehicle or conveyance.
Held: 1. The ordinance is within the power conferred upon cities and villages by sub-division . three of section sixteen hundred and ninety-two of the Revised Statutes "to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous,, offensive or unwholesome, and to cause any nuisance to be abated" and sub-division fourteen of the same section "to regulate the transportation and keeping of gunpowder and other explosive and dangerous combustibles, and to provide or license magazines for the same." White v. Kent, 11 Ohio St. 550.
2. Nor are the provisions of such ordinance inconsistent with those of sections 6953, 8853-4-5-6-7-8, of the Revised Statutes relating to the manufacture, transportation and storage of dynamite.
Judgment of the cwcuit court affirmed.