Commonwealth v. Lagorio

Decided January 30, 1886

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1886-01-30

Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, alleging that the defendant, on April 25, 1885, at Boston, “ was the person then and there having the care and ordering of a certain vehicle, to wit, a wagon, and did then and there, without having any license, authority, or appointment, according to law, so to do, suffer said vehicle to stop in a certain public street situate within said city and district, and called Haymarket Square, for a longer time than twenty…

Relies on Commonwealth v. Davis · Commonwealth v. Fenton

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Decided 1886-01-30

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By the Cotjbt.

¶11. The motion to quash was rightly overruled, for two reasons; it was made too late, and the complaint is sufficient. Commonwealth v. Rowe, ante, 79. 2. The license of the defendant as a hawker and pedler did not authorize him to violate a lawful police regulation of the city of Boston. Commonwealth v. Fenton, 139 Mass. 195. 3. It is not necessary that the regulation upon which the complaint is founded should be approved by the Superior Court, or a justice thereof. The Pub. Sts. c. 27, § 21, do not apply to the ordinances or regulations of the board of aldermen of the city of Boston. Commonwealth v. Davis, 140 Mass. 485.

¶2Exceptions overruled.