Village of Cattaraugus v. Johnson

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Date filed: 1931-05-15
Citations: 233 A.D. 799
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Lead Opinion

Judgment affirmed, with costs, on the ground that the burden of establishing a violation of the ordinance in cutting a shade tree was upon the plaintiff and whether

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or not the tree in question was a shade tree within the meaning of the ordinance was a question of fact and we cannot say that the decision of the trial justice in favor of the defendant was contrary to the evidence. All concur. Present — Sears, P. J., Crouch, Taylor, Thompson and Crosby, JJ. [139 Misc. 368.]