Benson, Roger v. Jones Bros. Contractors LLC

How courts have described this case

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• G.L.c. 266, §120, construed not to apply to the activities of ministers who go from house to house distributing or selling religious literature
• “entry upon another’s close, or into his house, at usual and reasonable hours, and in a customary manner, for any of the common purposes of life, cannot be regarded as a trespass”
• “[The statute’s] only purpose is to protect the rights of those in lawful control of property to forbid entrance by those whom they are unwilling to receive, and to exclude them if, having entered, those in control see fit to command them to leave”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).