Commonwealth v. Fenton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, for the violation, on June 21, ,1884, of a regulation of the board of aldermen of said city, which provides that no owner, driver, or other person having the care or ordering of a vehicle, shall suffer the same to stop in a street of said city for more than twenty minutes.
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Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, for the violation, on June 21, ,1884, of a regulation of the board of aldermen of said city, which provides that no owner, driver, or other person having the care or ordering of a vehicle, shall suffer the same to stop in a street of said city for more than twenty minutes. At the trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Blodgett, J., a police officer testified, for the government, that the defendant, on the evening of the day named in the complaint, suffered his wagon to stop by the sidewalk in a certain street about twenty-nine…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The regulation which prohibits any person from allowing his vehicle to stop in a public street for a longer time than twenty minutes, is a valid police regulation. Pub. Sts. e. 28, § 25. Commonwealth v. Brooks, 109 Mass. 355. The fact that the defendant had a license from the State as a hawker and pedler is immaterial. His license does not authorize him to violate the ordinances or police regulations of the city. He is subject to the regulation in question, in the same manner as is any person exercising a trade which does not require a license. Exceptions overruled.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. BrooksMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
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