Commonwealth v. Gage
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston for the violation of by-laws of the city by receiving two dollars as fare (the fare allowed by the by-law being fifty cents) for carrying one Charles E. Pecker in a hackney carriage from the Eastern Railroad Station to the station of the Boston and Albany Railroad.
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Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston for the violation of by-laws of the city by receiving two dollars as fare (the fare allowed by the by-law being fifty cents) for carrying one Charles E. Pecker in a hackney carriage from the Eastern Railroad Station to the station of the Boston and Albany Railroad. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., it was proved that Pecker made a special contract to pay the defendant two dollars to carry him and his baggage in a hackney carriage from the passenger depot of the Eastern Railroad to the depot of the Boston and Albany…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The rules and orders of the mayor and aider-men of Boston prohibit the setting up, using or driving of any hackney carriage for the conveyance of persons for hire from place to place within the city without a license from the board of aldermen; or the standing with such a carriage, to be employed, at any public place other than the stand so assigned to it; and require such carriages to be licensed annually and marked and numbered, and the driver of any carriage, which has been licensed to stand at any street, square, railroad station, steamboat landing or place of public entertainment, to…
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