Burgess v. Mayor of Brockton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on December 3, 1919, for a writ of certiorari directed to the mayor and aldermen and city clerk of the city of Brockton, commanding that the proceedings and records relating to the granting and revoking of certain licenses to operate motor vehicles for hire be certified to this court, and that such proceedings may be quashed and declared illegal; also a Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 3,1919, and afterwards amended, seeking to…
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Petition, filed on December 3, 1919, for a writ of certiorari directed to the mayor and aldermen and city clerk of the city of Brockton, commanding that the proceedings and records relating to the granting and revoking of certain licenses to operate motor vehicles for hire be certified to this court, and that such proceedings may be quashed and declared illegal; also a Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 3,1919, and afterwards amended, seeking to enjoin the mayor, aldermen and city marshal of the city of Brockton from preventing the plaintiffs from operating motor…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The validity of an ordinance of the city of Brockton and of action of the mayor and aldermen of that city -under it are challenged in these proceedings. St. 1916, c. 293, has been accepted by the city council of the city of Brockton. Section 1 of that act authorizes cities and towns, which accept its provisions, “to license and regulate the transportation of passengers for hire as a business between fixed and regular termini by means of any motor vehicle,” with exceptions not here material, and to “make regulations for the operation -of such vehicles within their own limits.” Pursuant to the…
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