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Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1911

City of Buffalo v. Whitmier & Filbrick Co.

City of Buffalo v. Whitmier & Filbrick Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided May 15, 1911 · Billboards, McLennan, Nuisance, Tending, That, There
145 A.D. 907; 129 N.Y.S. 1116
City of Buffalo v. Whitmier & Filbrick Co.

Opinion of the Court

Judgment affirmed, with costs, on the authority of City of Buffalo v. Cusack Co. (143 App. Div. 957), decided March 8, 1911. Held, that the ordinance in question does not apply to billboards erected prior to the passage of the ordinance.

All concurred; McLennan, P. J., on the further ground that there is no evidence tending to prove that the billboards in question were a common nuisance.

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