Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court January 4, 1907 (Commonwealth v. Beck)

Hammond, J.

Each of these six cases is a complaint for a violation of the following ordinance of the city of Fitchburg: “ Sect. 3. No person shall set up, use or drive, any hackney carriage, wagon, dray or other vehicle, whether on wheels or runners, for the conveyance from place to place within the city, *15for hire, of any goods, wares, merchandise, furniture, or any other article of