# Commonwealth v. Rowe

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · January 30, 1886 · 141 Mass. 79

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6421932

## Case

- **Full name:** Commonwealth v. Anson P. Rowe
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** January 30, 1886
- **Citations:** 141 Mass. 79; 6 N.E. 545; 1886 Mass. LEXIS 131
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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