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Philadelphia v. Brabender

Citations

  • 201 Pa. 574
  • 51 A. 374
  • 1902 Pa. LEXIS 888

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities—Powers of the city of Philadelphia—Casting advertisemenis and hand bills in vestibules—Acts of March 11, 1789, 2 Sm. L. 462, and, February 2, 1854, P. L. 21.</p> <p>Under the Acts of March 11, 1789, 2 Sm. L. 462, and February 2, 1854, P. L. 21, the city of Philadelphia has power to enact reasonable ordinances for the protection of the public in their right to the free and safe use of the highways of the city, and in pursuance of such power it may by ordinance forbid the casting of any paper, advertisement, hand bills, circulars or waste paper not only upon the streets, but also into the vestibules of dwelling houses.</p>

Judges: Brown, Dean, Fell, McCollum, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Pee, Potter

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