Commonwealth v. Goodnow
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, alleging that the defendant, on February 3, 1874, “ at Boston aforesaid, and within the judicial district of said court, with force and arms, in a certain building there situate, and bordering on West Brookline Street, the same being a public street of said city, did cause to be constructed a certain window, which said window did then and there project into said street, against the peace of said Commonwealth, the form…
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Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, alleging that the defendant, on February 3, 1874, “ at Boston aforesaid, and within the judicial district of said court, with force and arms, in a certain building there situate, and bordering on West Brookline Street, the same being a public street of said city, did cause to be constructed a certain window, which said window did then and there project into said street, against the peace of said Commonwealth, the form of the statute of said Commonwealth and by-laws of said city, in such case made and provided.” At the trial in the…
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
In 1799, an act was passed prohibiting any person from erecting or maintaining a bow window which shall project into the streets of the town of Boston more than one foot beyond the front of his house; and a penalty was attached of one dollar for each day such bow window shall be continued after notice from the proper authorities. 2 Mass. Spec. Laws, 340.
By the St. of 1848, e. 278, cities were empowered to make such rules and regulations for the erection and maintenance of balustrades and other projections upon the roofs- and sides of buildings as the safety of the public requires, with a…
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