Commonwealth v. Rowe

6 N.E. 545, 141 Mass. 79, 1886 Mass. LEXIS 131

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.