Commonwealth v. Lindsey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two complaints, received and sworn to in the Central District Court of Worcester on December 21, 1914, charging that the defendant at Worcester respectively on November 24, 1914, and November 30, 1914, unlawfully did practice medicine, not being lawfully authorized and registered as required by law. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Sanderson, J. The evidence is described in the opinion.
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Two complaints, received and sworn to in the Central District Court of Worcester on December 21, 1914, charging that the defendant at Worcester respectively on November 24, 1914, and November 30, 1914, unlawfully did practice medicine, not being lawfully authorized and registered as required by law. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Sanderson, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. It was agreed that the defendant never had been lawfully registered as required by law to practice medicine. At the close of the evidence the defendant asked the judge to make the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
These two complaints are for the violation of R. L. c. 76, § 8. They each allege that the defendant, on November 24, 1914, and November 30, 1914, unlawfully did practice medicine, not being lawfully authorized and registered as required by law.
1. Near the street door of the building, in which the defendant carried on his business, was the sign, “Dr. Willard M. Lindsey, Inc.” This was the name of a corporation of which he was the president. He also was the president of another corporation, “The Magnetic Sanitarium Company.”
Three women testified as witnesses for the Commonwealth. Each called at…
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