Commonwealth v. Kingsbury
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, received and sworn to before the District Court of Franklin on September 20,1907, charging the defendant with operating an automobile on September 15,1907, upon a highway from which automobiles were excluded by vote of the selectmen of the town of Ashfield under St. 1907, c. 203. On appeal to the Superior Court, the case was tried before Stevens, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appeared that on the occasion in question the defendant was…
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Complaint, received and sworn to before the District Court of Franklin on September 20,1907, charging the defendant with operating an automobile on September 15,1907, upon a highway from which automobiles were excluded by vote of the selectmen of the town of Ashfield under St. 1907, c. 203. On appeal to the Superior Court, the case was tried before Stevens, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appeared that on the occasion in question the defendant was driving his automobile on a highway from which automobiles had been excluded by the selectmen, as alleged in the complaint,…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The defendant was convicted of having operated an automobile in violation of law, over a highway legally laid out in the town of Ashfield, from which automobiles were excluded under the authority of the statutes. He took excep*544tian to the refusal of the trial judge to make certain rulings requested, which, in a variety of forms, raised the question whether the St. of 1905, c. 366, § 1, as amended by the St. 1906, c. 412, § 9, and the St. 1907, c. 203, were constitutional. .The first of these statutes authorizes hoards of aldermen in cities and boards of selectmen in towns to “make special…
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