Graffty v. City of Rushville

Subdivision 23 of section 3106, R. S. 1881, empowers cities incorporated under the general law of the State of Indiana, “To regulate the ringing of bells and crying of goods, and to restrain hawking and peddling.” Assuming to act under the authority thus conferred, the common council of the city of Rushville, on the 10th day of September, 1883, passed an ordinance of the tenor following: “ That every person who peddles, hawks, sells, or exhibits for sale, any goods, wares or merchandise, not the growth or manufacture of Rush county, Indiana, or shall take orders for any such goods, wares or…