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· 4/14/1908

Townsend v. City of Circleville

Citations

  • 78 Ohio St. (N.S.) 122

Syllabus

<p>Police power of municipal' corporations — Only such as clearly expressed or implied — Cannot control stoppage of interurban cars.</p> <p>Municipal corporations in Ohio have only such police power as is expressly granted or clearly implied, and the legislature has not granted to them power to require by a penal ordinance the stopping of interurban cars to take on and to discharge passengers, but only to regulate the speed of such cars within the corporation.</p>

Judges: Crew, Davis, Iauck, Spear, Summers

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