Commonwealth v. Peoples Express Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two complaints, received and sworn to in the First District Court of Northern Worcester on October 17, 1907, the first charging a violation of St. 1906, c. 421, in transporting for hire, without having been granted a permit to do so, intoxicating liquors into Gardner, a town in which licenses of the first five classes for the sale of intoxicating liquors were not granted; and the second charging a violation of R. L. c. 100, § 49, as amended by St. 1907, c. 517, in…
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Two complaints, received and sworn to in the First District Court of Northern Worcester on October 17, 1907, the first charging a violation of St. 1906, c. 421, in transporting for hire, without having been granted a permit to do so, intoxicating liquors into Gardner, a town in which licenses of the first five classes for the sale of intoxicating liquors were not granted; and the second charging a violation of R. L. c. 100, § 49, as amended by St. 1907, c. 517, in transporting such liquors into Gardner without being a corporation regularly and lawfully conducting a general express business.…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
The defendant was convicted upon two complaints, one for the violation of St. 1906, c. 421, and the other for the violation of R. L. c. 100, § 49, as amended by St. 1907, c. 517. St. 1906, c. 421, § 1, provides that “ No person or corporation, except a railroad or street railway corporation, shall, for hire or reward, transport spirituous or intoxicating liquors into or in a city or town in which licenses of the first five classes for the sale of intoxicating liquors are not granted, without first being granted a permit so to do as hereinafter provided.” R. L. c. 100, § 49, as amended by St.…
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