City of Ferguson v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “the failure of the court to include a provision for imprisonment in the judgments would be mere error, which is not corrected by nunc pro tunc proceedings.”
• \an action for the violation of a city or town ordinance is to be regarded as a civil action for the recovery of a penalty\
• 'We have often said that an action for the violation of a city or town ordinance is to be regarded as a civil action for the recovery of a penalty, and that it is not a prosecution for crime.'

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).