State v. Dalton
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Complaint charging the defendant with giving “trading-stamps,” so-called, in violation of cap. 652 of the Pub. Laws R. I. Certified to the Appellate Division upon the constitutionality of the act.
1Opinion of the Court
Tillinghast, J.(1) On the 13th day of November, 1899, the defendant was arraigned before the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District upon a complaint and warrant charging “that on the 28th day of October, 1S99, with force and arms, Benjamin Dalton of Johnston, did sell to one Frederick W. Perkins certain articles of merchandise, to-wit: Three pieces of tobacco, and did then and there give and distribute to said Frederick W. Perkins three stamps commonly called trading-stamps, which said stamps did then and there entitle the said Frederick W. Perkins to demand and receive certain…
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