Commonwealth v. Page
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint for setting up and using a hackney carriage for the conveyance of persons for hire from place to place within the city of Boston without a license from the board of police. .At the trial in the Superior Court, before Barker, J., the following .facts were agreed. The defendants, Page and Harris, are partners, and carry on a hack, boarding, and livery stable at 783 and 785 Tremont Street, in Boston.
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Complaint for setting up and using a hackney carriage for the conveyance of persons for hire from place to place within the city of Boston without a license from the board of police. .At the trial in the Superior Court, before Barker, J., the following .facts were agreed. The defendants, Page and Harris, are partners, and carry on a hack, boarding, and livery stable at 783 and 785 Tremont Street, in Boston. Their business consists in letting teams for hire, and in furnishing board for teams belonging to other persons. They had no stand for any of their carriages in the streets of the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The Pub. Sts. c. 28, § 25, provide that “ the mayor and aldermen of a city may make rules and orders for the regulation of all carriages and vehicles used either wholly or in part therein, whether with or without animal power, with penalties for violations thereof, not exceeding twenty dollars for one offence; and may receive annually one dollar and no more for each license granted by them to a person to set up and use any carriage or vehicle within such city.” It is further provided - by the same section that “ this section shall not impair the right of a city to make by-laws relating to the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Commonwealth v. PlaistedMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Commonwealth v. MatthewsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Commonwealth v. GageMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Commonwealth v. DuaneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
3Cited by11 opinions
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- Morley v. Police CommissionerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- Commonwealth v. SlocumMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- Opinion of the Justices to the SenateMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
- Commonwealth v. EllisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
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