Attorney General v. Lyons

These are quo warranta proceedings brought by the Attorney General for and in behalf of the Commonwealth, alleging that the defendants, “not regularly and lawfully conducting a general express business,” were granted permits, unobjectionable in form, to transport intoxicating liquors for hire and reward by the mayor and aldermen of the city of Brockton, *537a city in which licenses of the first five classes for the sale of intoxicating liquors are not granted, contrary to the provisions of St.‘1906, c. 421, as amended by St. 1911, c. 423; wherefore prayers are made that the defendants severally…