Commonwealth v. Morrison
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, taken and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston December 29, 1905, for obstructing Adams Square, a highway in Boston. On appeal to the Superior Court, the case was tried on agreed facts before Brown, J., upon whose refusal to direct a verdict of not guilty, the defendant submitted to a verdict of guilty, and the presiding judge reported the case for determination by this court.
1Opinion of the CourtBugg, J.
The defendant is complained of for obstructing a highway in the city of Boston. The facts are that the defendant kept a lunch wagon upon a public way, known as Adams Square, in the night time. This wagon was a rectangular boxlike structure, placed upon the four-wheel running gear of an ordinary wagon, and was drawn to Adams Square by a single horse harnessed into the wagon shafts in the usual way. The upper structure of the wagon had a door, or entrance, about midway on one side. There were six windows on one side and five on the other, and three on each end. The inside was fitted up with a…
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