Wyeth v. Board of Health of Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on June 15, 1908, for a writ of mandamus addressed to the persons constituting the board of health of the city of Cambridge, commanding them to issue to the petitioner a license as an undertaker.
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Petition, filed on June 15, 1908, for a writ of mandamus addressed to the persons constituting the board of health of the city of Cambridge, commanding them to issue to the petitioner a license as an undertaker. The case came on to be heard before Knowlton^ C. J., who reserved it for determination by the full court in the following report: “ After a hearing, and by agreement of parties, the questions of law arising upon the petition and answer and agreed statement of facts, in this case are reported for the consideration of the full court. If the refusal of the respondents to grant the…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondents, the board of health of the city of Cambridge, to grant the petitioner a license as an undertaker. Among the facts agreed are the following:
“Second. That the petitioner, Benjamin F. Wyeth, is an inhabitant of Cambridge, is an undertaker by trade, and has been for forty-six years engaged in the trade of undertaker in various capacities, and has carried on for some years past the business of undertaking under the name of Benjamin F. Wyeth; that said undertaking business as conducted by the petitioner is a profitable one, and it…
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