Commonwealth v. Badger
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston on February 18, 1921, charging that, while Edward E. Badger was the owner of the building situated and numbered 81 Wareham Street, Boston, a part of that building, namely, the front rooms in the second and third floors, "were then and there being used in the business of manufacturing paper boxes, that the said building was then and there a building in which four or more persons were then and there…
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Complaint, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston on February 18, 1921, charging that, while Edward E. Badger was the owner of the building situated and numbered 81 Wareham Street, Boston, a part of that building, namely, the front rooms in the second and third floors, "were then and there being used in the business of manufacturing paper boxes, that the said building was then and there a building in which four or more persons were then and there usually employed therein above the second floor,” that the fire marshal for the Metropolitan District on March 18, 1920,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a complaint under G. L. c. 148, § 36, charging the defendant, as owner of a designated building in Boston, in which four or more persons were usually employed above the second story within rooms used in the manufacture of paper boxes, with having failed within six months after service of notice from the fire marshal to that effect to equip said building with automatic sprinklers.
The statute is not open to objection on constitutional grounds. It plainly is a regulation designed to protect persons working upon inflammable material in rooms higher than the second story from the peril of…
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