For text of the decisions, see Appendix, pp. [219], [226] ff.

[132] State vs. Berdetta, 73 Ind. 185.

[133] Affirmed in 194 N. Y. 19.

[134] Charter of City of Dallas, Sect. 5, Par. 12. Charter of Detroit, Chap. 7, Sect. 44. Charter of Portland, Ore., Art. 4, Sect. 73, Par. 27.

[135] Massachusetts Revised Laws, Chapter 75, Section 91.

[136] 161 Cal. 220.

[137] 163 Cal. 457.

[138] Also see Acts of Minnesota, 1913, Chaps. 98 and 420; Acts of New York, 1913, Chap. 774; Acts of Wisconsin, 1913. Chap. 743.

[139] For further references see Veiller, Lawrence: A Model Housing Law, pp. 62 ff. See also “Protecting Residential Districts,” a paper read by Lawrence Veiller at the Sixth National Conference on City Planning, Toronto, 1914.

[140] For cases see St. Louis vs. Hill, 116 Mo. 527. St. Louis vs. Dorr, 145 Mo. 466.