Boehm v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 59 Pa. Super. 441
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 96

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Nuisance—Ordinance—Keeping hogs in city’s limits.</p> <p>1. An ordinance of a city “declaring it to be a nuisance, and making it unlawful to keep hogs and swine in the city, except in certain limits; or in any part thereof, excepting in a sanitary manner; and providing penalties in violation of the ordinance,” is a proper and legal ordinance, and is not rendered invalid by the fact that the ordinance prescribed the limits by the designation of certain streets or lines in which hogs may be kept, and forbidding them to be kept in other parts of the city.</p> <p>2. A city by ordinance may prohibit the keeping of hogs in a section which theretofore was rural, and in which the business of raising hogs was harmless, but by reason of the city’s progressive growth the locality has been changed by the general municipal development so that the vicinity is altered from rural to built up conditions.</p>