Gassenheimer v. District of Columbia

Citations

• 26 App. D.C. 557
• 1906 U.S. App. LEXIS 5121

Syllabus

<p>Police Regulations; Automobiles.</p> <p>1. Automobiles used for hire, for which the owner has public hack licenses, are vehicles within the meaning of section 7, article 10, of the police regulations, which provides that vehicles for hire, seeking employment, shall not loiter on the streets, except at the regular public stands.</p> <p>2. A conviction under section 7, article 10, of the police regulations, providing that vehicles for hire, seeking employment, shall not loiter on the streets, except at the regular public stands, is warranted, where it appears that the defendant’s vehicles stood in front of a hotel of which he was not the proprietor, at a place not a public stand, displaying placards indicating that they were for hire by the general public, and that in two instances they were hired to persons not guests of the hotel; and it is immaterial that the defendant maintained an agent in the hotel to make contracts with guests, and to telephone for vehicles for their use. (Distinguishing Willard Hotel Co. v. District of Columbia, 23 App. D. C. 272; Gassenheimer v. District of Columbia, 25 App. D. C. 179.)</p> <p>3. Where an owner and licensee of public vehicles permits them to stand in the street, it cannot be said that the evidence is insufficient in law to warrant a finding that he knew of, profited by, and encouraged a violation of a law prohibiting such use of the streets. (Following Trometer v. District of Columbia, 24 App. D. C. 242, 248.)</p>