Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 15, 1872 (Commonwealth v. Adams)

Morton, J.

The statute provides that whoever, without a license from the mayor and aldermen or selectmen, keeps or suffers to be kept in a house, building, yard, or dependency thereof, by him actually occupied or owned, a table for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, gain or reward, shall be subject to a fine. Gen. Sts. e. 88, § 70.