Commonwealth v. Slocum
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, returned on September 10,1917, charging that the defendant operated a motor vehicle on August 29,1917, in the city of Springfield for the transportation of passengers for hire as a business without being licensed so to do by the city or its police commission.
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Indictment, returned on September 10,1917, charging that the defendant operated a motor vehicle on August 29,1917, in the city of Springfield for the transportation of passengers for hire as a business without being licensed so to do by the city or its police commission. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hamilton, J. ' There was a verdict of guilty, and at the defendant’s request the judge reported the case for determination by this court, the verdict to stand if the ordinance violated by the defendant was valid; otherwise, a verdict of not guilty was to be entered. St. 1916, c.…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This indictment charges the defendant with having operated a motor vehicle as a business for the transportation of passengers for hire in Springfield without a license, contrary to statute and ordinance. The defendant does not contend that he did not violate the terms of an ordinance of the city of Springfield; but he urges that the ordinance does not conform to the enabling statute and is unconstitutional on several grounds. General power is conferred by St. 1916, c. 293, upon such cities *190and towns as accept its provisions to license and regulate transportation of passengers for hire by…
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