Commonwealth v. McGann
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, received and sworn to in the Fourth District Court of Eastern Middlesex on May 15, 1912, charging the defendants with setting up and promoting an exhibition and public show at Woburn on May 7, 9, 11 and 14, 1912, without being licensed to do so. The case went by appeal to the Superior Court.
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Complaint, received and sworn to in the Fourth District Court of Eastern Middlesex on May 15, 1912, charging the defendants with setting up and promoting an exhibition and public show at Woburn on May 7, 9, 11 and 14, 1912, without being licensed to do so. The case went by appeal to the Superior Court. In that court the defendants filed a plea in bar, alleging that they were the lessees of a building in Woburn known as the Lyceum Hall Theatre, which had been licensed by the chief of the district police under St. 1904, c. 450, § 2, [St. 1905, c. 342, § 1,] on August 1, 1911, for a period of…
1Opinion of the CourtLosing, J.
1. The effect of St. 1904, c. 450, was to require in towns and in cities other than Boston two licenses for a theatrical entertainment. One, to be issued by the chief of the district police, had to do with the safety of the public who attended *215the performance. The other, to be issued under R. L. c. 102, § 172, by the selectmen or the mayor and aldermen (later under St. 1905, c. 341, by the mayor alone), had to do with the morals of - the public who attended. Before the enactment of that act (St. 1904, c. 450), one license covering both aspects was to be issued by the mayor and aldermen or by…
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