Child v. Bemus

This is a complaint against the defendant for driving a hackney carriage without license, in violation of an ordinance of the city of Providence. On trial thereof in the Court of Common Pleas, on appeal from the Police Court, it appeared that July, A. D. 1890, a license was granted to the defendant for one year, and that September 16, A. D. 1890, it was revoked by the mayor on recommendation of the superintendent of hacks, representing that the defendant had refused to remove his carriage, at the Boston depot, when told to do so by the officer there. It was revoked without notice or hearing.…