147 Mass. 577
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 8, 1888
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1888-11-08
Complaint by Daniel W. Hammond to the Police Court of Haverhill, for an unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors at Haverhill, on December 26,1887. In the Superior Court, on appeal, before the jury was impanelled, the defendant moved to quash the complaint for the following reasons: “1. Because the complainant therein, Daniel W. Hammond, is not the mayor or one of the board of aider-men of the city of Haverhill. 2.
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Decided 1888-11-08
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1974
5 state decisions
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¶1The provision of c. 100, § 18, of the Public Statutes, that “the mayor and aldermen of cities and the selectmen of towns shall prosecute to final judgment all violations of this section,” was intended to impose a duty upon the officers named. It is directory only, and does not exclude the right of any other citizen to enter complaints for a violation of the law.
¶2Fxeeptions overruled.