Commonwealth v. McCarthy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, received and sworn to in the District Court of Hampshire, charging that the defendant had engaged in the business of plumbing as a master plumber without being properly registered or licenséd so to do. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Sisk, J. The material evidence is described in. the opinion.
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Complaint, received and sworn to in the District Court of Hampshire, charging that the defendant had engaged in the business of plumbing as a master plumber without being properly registered or licenséd so to do. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Sisk, J. The material evidence is described in. the opinion. The defendant asked for the following rulings, besides rulings that on all the evidence the defendant should be acquitted, and that St. 190.9, c. 536, and statutes in amendment thereof and supplementary thereto were unconstitutional because they were in contravention…
1Opinion of the CourtRugo, C. J.
This is a complaint charging the defendant with being engaged in the business of a master plumber without being registered or licensed as such, contrary to St. 1909, c. 536, as amended by St. 1914, c. 287. The defendant was licensed as a journeyman plumber but not as a master plumber. Under a rule attempted to be promulgated by the State examiners of plumbers, approved by the State board of health, the defendant could not take an examination to be a master plumber until the lapse of three years from being licensed as a journeyman plumber, or until March 25, 1917, he having been licensed as a…
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