Inhabitants of Watertown v. Mayo
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed by the selectmen in behalf of the inhabitants of Watertown, on October 14, 1871, to restrain Emery M. Mayo by injunction from occupying and using a building, described in the bill, owned by him in Watertown, for carrying on therein the business of slaughtering cattle, sheep or other animals, without written consent of the selectmen under the St. of 1871, c. 167, entitled “ An act concerning slaughter-houses and noxious and offensive trades,” which was…
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Bill in equity, filed by the selectmen in behalf of the inhabitants of Watertown, on October 14, 1871, to restrain Emery M. Mayo by injunction from occupying and using a building, described in the bill, owned by him in Watertown, for carrying on therein the business of slaughtering cattle, sheep or other animals, without written consent of the selectmen under the St. of 1871, c. 167, entitled “ An act concerning slaughter-houses and noxious and offensive trades,” which was passed on April 8, 1871, and is printed in the margin.* The answer denied that the plaintiffs had any right to bring the…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The business which the defendant carries on in his slaughter-house, without the written consent and permission of the selectmen of Watertown, is in plain violation of the provisions of the St. 1871, c. 167, which prohibit the use of any building for slaughtering cattle, &c., or for other noxious or offensive trades, without such consent, in any city or town con*318taining more than four thousand inhabitants. It is found that the defendant’s business was commenced since the passage of the act; and it therefore does not come within the protection of the proviso in the first section, in favor of…
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