Commonwealth v. Costello
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The first case was a complaint to the District Court of East Norfolk, alleging that the defendant, on May 19, 1881, at-Quincy, being then and there licensed according to law to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors, in two certain rooms, to wit, one rear room on the ground floor, and one room on the second floor directly above said first-mentioned room, in a certain building, which said rooms were then and there used by the defendant for the sale of spirituous and…
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The first case was a complaint to the District Court of East Norfolk, alleging that the defendant, on May 19, 1881, at-Quincy, being then and there licensed according to law to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors, in two certain rooms, to wit, one rear room on the ground floor, and one room on the second floor directly above said first-mentioned room, in a certain building, which said rooms were then and there used by the defendant for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, under the provisions of his said license, “ unlawfully did place and maintain, and authorize and permit…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
1. The St. of 1880, c. 239, § 2, as amended by the St. of 1881, o. 225, provides that “ lío such licensed person shall place or maintain, or authorize or permit to be placed . or maintained, upon any premises used by him for the sale of *198spirituous or intoxicating liquors under the provisions of his license, any screen, blind, shutter, curtain, partition, or painted, ground, or stained glass window, or any other obstruction, which shall interfere with a view of .the business conducted upon the premises,” and § 6 of c. 239 of the St. of 1880 prescribes the penalty for any violation of the…
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