BROWN v. TOWN OF WELLS


402 A.2d 57 (1979)

Robert E. BROWN v. TOWN OF WELLS and Selectmen.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

June 4, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cole & Daughan by Roland A. Cole, (orally) Wells, for plaintiff.

John E. Harrington, Jr., Wells, for defendant.

Before WERNICK, ARCHIBALD, DELAHANTY, GODFREY and NICHOLS, JJ.


DELAHANTY, Justice.

Pursuant to 25 M.R.S.A. § 2031, the plaintiff, Robert E. Brown, applied to the Board of Selectmen (Board) in his hometown of Wells for a certificate which would permit him to carry a concealed revolver. Section 2031 provides in part:

No person shall . . . wear under his clothes, or conceal about his person any firearm . . .; except that . . . the selectmen of any town may upon written application...

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