Opinion

Commonwealth v. Rowe

  • 141 Mass. 79
  • 6 N.E. 545
  • 1886 Mass. LEXIS 131
Court
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Filed
Jan 30, 1886
Status
Published
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 62.7%

The opinion

By the Court.

The motion to quash was rightly overruled. The regulation of the board of aldermen, under which the complaint is brought, provides that no person “ having the care or ordering of a vehicle shall suffer the same to stop in a street for more than twenty minutes.” The obvious meaning of the regulation is that no vehicle shall be allowed to make a continuous stop of more than twenty minutes. The complaint substantially follows the regulation, and, by its natural and obvious construction, charges a continuous stopping for a longer time than twenty minutes, and is sufficient. Commonwealth v. Barrett, 108 Mass. 302 . Commonwealth v. Fenton, 139 Mass. 195 .

Exceptions overruled.

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