Commonwealth v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned in September, 1910, charging the defendant with a violation of the provisions of St. 1910, c. 567, in refusing to sell to one Barker, a boy fifteen years of age, who was a pupil of the Lawrence Independent Industrial School, tickets in lots of ten for his transportation between the school house of that school and bis home at a rate of fare not exceeding one half the regular fare charged by the defendant for the transportation of passengers…
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Indictment, found and returned in September, 1910, charging the defendant with a violation of the provisions of St. 1910, c. 567, in refusing to sell to one Barker, a boy fifteen years of age, who was a pupil of the Lawrence Independent Industrial School, tickets in lots of ten for his transportation between the school house of that school and bis home at a rate of fare not exceeding one half the regular fare charged by the defendant for the transportation of passengers between those points. In the Superior Court the case was submitted to Bell, J., upon an agreed statement of facts. The…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The only question in this case is whether St. 1910, c. 567, is constitutional as applied to the facts appearing of record. This statute provides that the rates of fare charged by street railways for “transportation of pupils of the public day schools or public evening schools or industrial day or evening schools ... or private schools” in travelling for attendance between home and school “shall not exceed one half the regular fare charged” for the transportation of other passengers between the same points. The constitutionality of R. L. c. 112, § 72, which made similar requirements as to…
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