City of Clearwater v. Bowman

Citations

• 72 Kan. 92
• 82 P. 526
• 1905 Kan. LEXIS 315

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Municipal Corporations —Ordinances—Penalites—Surplusage. Under a statute authorizing a city to punish the violation of its ordinances by fine only, the clause of an ordinance which attempts to provide a penalty of either fine or imprisonment is not thereby rendered entirely void, but the part relating to imprisonment may be treated as mere surplusage.</p> <p>2. Statutory Construction — Suppression of Billiard-tables Includes Pool-tables. A statute empowering cities to suppress billiard-tables, enacted while that term was applied to tables substantially the same as pool-tables of the present time, is sufficient authority for an ordinance forbidding the use of pool-tables.</p>