diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/LocalizedMessages.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/LocalizedMessages.java
index d3d1777a4..3d10310d6 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/LocalizedMessages.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/LocalizedMessages.java
@@ -35,13 +35,6 @@ public class LocalizedMessages
     /** contains the messages logged **/
     private final ArrayList mMessages = new ArrayList();
 
-    /**
-     * Creates a new <code>LocalizedMessages</code> instance.
-     */
-    public LocalizedMessages()
-    {
-    }
-
     /** @return the logged messages **/
     public LocalizedMessage[] getMessages()
     {