Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — CAN’T EXCLUDE AUTOMOBILES. [ARTICLE]

CAN’T EXCLUDE AUTOMOBILES.

Supreme Court Holds that Streets Are for All Vehicles. A city has no power by ordinance to exclude from its streets automobiles, bicycles, traction engines or other vehicles operated by something else than horse power on the more ground that steam or electricity or some new and unusual motive power is used to propel them. The fact that they interfere with the drivers of animals makes no difference. The Supreme Court has so held. Judge Monks, who delivered the opinion of the Court, said that the highways and streets are not for the exclusive use of vehicles propelled by animal power, nor are travelers confined to the use of such power and to ordinary carriages on highways. The use of any new and improved means of locomotion must be deemed to have been contemplated when the highways and streets woer laid out or dedicated, lie said, whenever the general benefit requires it and such new means of locomotion cannot be excluded therefrom.