City of Waco v. Powell

Citations

• 32 Tex. 258

Syllabus

<p>1—The Legislature has power to enact a general law, applicable to towns or cities having a designated population, empowering their corporate authorities to make town ordinances not inconsistent with the constitution.</p> <p>3—The control over streets and public places, and? to abate nuisances, conferred on aldermen of towns and cities by the seventeenth section of the act of January 37th, 1858, (Paschal’s Dig., Art. 5363,) is not repugnant to the constitution. Y</p> <p>3—See the opinion for a town ordinance, impounding hogs going at large in the streets, which is held to be within the powers conferred upon aider-men by the act of 1858, above referred to.</p>