City of Beardstown v. Moody

Citations

• 36 Ill. 347

Syllabus

<p>Witness— competency of. Where a city ordinance imposed a penalty of fifty dollars on all steamboats that should leave the wharf without paying wharfage fees, in a prosecution by the city for the penalty, the wharf-master was not an incompetent witness, because the ordinances entitled him to ten per cent, of the wharfage fees. The penalty cannot be regarded as wharfage fees.</p>