Commonwealth v. Abrahams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Municipal Court of the West Roxbury District of the city of Boston for criminal business, charging the defendant with a violation of the rules of the board of park commissioners of the city.
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Complaint to the Municipal Court of the West Roxbury District of the city of Boston for criminal business, charging the defendant with a violation of the rules of the board of park commissioners of the city. Three of said rules are as follows: “ The board of park commissioners of the city of Boston, by virtue of its authority to make rules for the use and government of the public parks of said city, and for breaches of such rules to affix penalties, hereby ordains that within the public parks, except with the prior consent of the board, it is forbidden,— “ To cut, break, injure, deface,…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The park commissioners had, by the St. of 1875, c. 185, § 3, power to “govern and regulate” any of the parks which they might lay out under the statute, “to make rules for the use and government thereof, and for breaches of such rules to affix penalties not exceeding twenty dollars for one offence, to be imposed by any court of competent jurisdiction.” The rules which the defendant violated are similar in form to the city ordinance which was before the court in Com*60monwealth v. Davis, 140 Mass. 485, and which was held to be reasonable and valid. Of that ordinance Chief Justice Morton said: “…
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