State v. Dunklee
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Appeal, from the decision, of the police court of the city of Concord, which found the defendant guilty of violating a city ordinance requiring the owners of hackney-coaches used in the city to obtain a license from the board of mayor and aldermen. The defendant has not complied with the ordinance and was engaged in operating, with a chauffeur as driver, an automobile or taxicab, carrying passengers for hire from place to place within the limits of the city.
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Appeal, from the decision, of the police court of the city of Concord, which found the defendant guilty of violating a city ordinance requiring the owners of hackney-coaches used in the city to obtain a license from the board of mayor and aldermen. The defendant has not complied with the ordinance and was engaged in operating, with a chauffeur as driver, an automobile or taxicab, carrying passengers for hire from place to place within the limits of the city. The defendant is guilty if the ordinance applies to the transportation of passengers for hire in motor vehicles. Transferred from the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The ordinance upon which the prosecution is based is as follows: “No person or persons shall set up, employ, or use any hackney-coach, cab, or other vehicle for the conveyance of passengers, for hire, from place to place within the limits of the city, without a license from the mayor and aldermen”; and the ' question presented by the defence is whether this ordinance applies to one engaged in the business of conveying passengers for hire, within the city of Concord, in a taxicab. The validity of the ordinance as applied to the business of transporting passengers in cabs or hackney-coaches is…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. NewhallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
3Cited by4 opinions
- State v. RichardsonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1942
- Honnon v. KerrSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1932
- Cofran v. GriffinSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1931
- Lefebvre v. Homer M. Whittier & Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1929