Commonwealth v. Gardner
Schuylkill County Court of Quarter Sessions
No. 28 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 557 June Term 1889, Q. S. On June 19, 1889, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment charging William W. Unger, William Gardner, George Shaub and R. Sinton with hawking and peddling goods within the county of Schuylkill, contrary to the provisions of the act of April 17-, 1846, P. L. 364. The defendants pleaded not guilty.
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No. 28 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 557 June Term 1889, Q. S. On June 19, 1889, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment charging William W. Unger, William Gardner, George Shaub and R. Sinton with hawking and peddling goods within the county of Schuylkill, contrary to the provisions of the act of April 17-, 1846, P. L. 364. The defendants pleaded not guilty. At the trial on June 19, 1889, the jury rendered the following special verdict: “ The defendants sold from door to door in Mahanoy City, in the said county, on or about the 24th day of May, A. D. 1889, certain…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Williams :
The defendants were employed at a salary, by a manufacturing company in Rhode Island, to sell an article of merchandise called “soapine.” They came into the county of Schuylkill in the regular course of their employment, and, as they say in the History of the Case in their paper-book, “ were in the county temporarily, for the purpose of selling this article, as the agents of the manufacturers.” When they had completed their canvass of the county of Schuylkill, they would, if continuing in the employment of the manufacturers, move on to another county, and subject…
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