Commonwealth v. Mulhall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, for violating § 6 of chapter 6 of the Revised Regulations of the City of Boston of 1892, which is as follows: “ No person shall carry or cause to be carried on any vehicle in any street a load the weight whereof exceeds three tons, unless such load consists of an article which cannot be divided.”
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Complaint, for violating § 6 of chapter 6 of the Revised Regulations of the City of Boston of 1892, which is as follows: “ No person shall carry or cause to be carried on any vehicle in any street a load the weight whereof exceeds three tons, unless such load consists of an article which cannot be divided.” At the trial in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., it was admitted by the defendant that he was the driver of a team of four horses and a four-wheeled wagon upon which was a load of granite stones of six tons’ weight, and that the load did not consist of an article which could not…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
By Pub. Sts. c. 53, § 15, it is provided that “ the mayor and aldermen and selectmen may make such rules and regulations for the passage of carriages, wagons, carts, *498•trucks, sleds, sleighs, horse cars, or other vehicles, or for the use of sleds or other vehicles for coasting in and through the streets or public ways of a city or town, as they may deem necessary for the public safety or convenience, with penalties for the violation thereof not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence.” This statute was originally enacted in similar language in the St. of 1875, c. 136, § 1. The ordinance…
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