Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1875

Connolly v. City of Boston

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided January 15, 1875 · Gray

117 Mass. 64; 1875 Mass. LEXIS 150

Cases that cite this one

8 later published cases cite this decision.

McNeill v. Railroad Co. (N.C. 1904)
McCarthy v. Inhabitants of Leeds (Me. 1917)
Tackett v. Taylor County (Iowa 1904)
Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Yopst (Ind. 1889)
State v. Knight (W. Va. 1887)
Bucher v. Fitchburg Railroad (Mass. 1881)
White v. Lang (Mass. 1880)
Smith v. Boston & Maine Railroad (Mass. 1876)

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Opinion of the Court

Gray, C. J.

The plaintiff’s own testimony showed that he was travelling on the Lord’s day on a matter of his own secular *65business, and not from the pressure of any “necessity” upon himself, or “ charity ” towards any other person, upon any possible interpretation of those words. He cannot therefore maintain this action. Gen. Sts. c. 84, § 2. Bosworth v. Swansey, 10 Met. 363. Jones v. Andover, 10 Allen, 18. Stanton v. Metropolitan Railroad, 14 Allen, 485. Commonwealth v. Sampson, 97 Mass. 407. Commonwealth v. Josselyn, Ib. 411. Exceptions overruled.

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