Commonwealth v. White

The selectmen of Brookline adopted certain rules and orders for the regulation of carriages or vehicles for hire, which provided in part that “No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in the business of transporting persons for hire in a carriage or vehicle from place to place within the limits of the town of Brookline without first having obtained a license from the board of selectmen of said town.”

The case was tried on the following agreed facts: “The defendant operated a taxicab and brought a passenger from the North Station in Boston, Massachusetts, to Coolidge *302Comer, Brookline, and…