Giardina v. City of Greenville

Citations

• 70 Miss. 896

Syllabus

<p>1, Municipal Okdinancio. Violation. Placing goods on sidewalk. Sufficiency of charge.</p> <p>Under an ordinance making it unlawful to place any goods on a sidewalk, an affidavit charging defendant with obstructing a sidewalk by allowing barrels to remain thereon, without averring that he placed them there, charges no offense.</p> <p>2. iSamb. Strictness. Articles designated. Ejusdein generis.</p> <p>An ordinance which prohibits placing on a sidewalk “ straw, chips, dirt, shells, tin cans, iron hoops, swill, nails, iron, glass, fruit peelings, melon rinds, shavings, rags, hair or such rubbish,” is not violated by allowing barrels to remain on the sidewalk, obstructing it. Though they may contain the things mentioned, or have iron hoops and nails in their makeup, barrels are not embraced in the enumeration.</p>