Ex parte Case
Oregon Supreme Court
From Coos: John S. Coke, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Me. Justice Eakin. R. (1. Case was charged in the justice’s court with the crime of peddling without a license, namely, with a two-horse wagon he did wrongfully and unlawfully, outside the corporate limits of any city and town, peddle to Jim Hayes a two-seated, open-.topped vehicle without first obtaining a license so to do, as provided by statute.
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From Coos: John S. Coke, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Me. Justice Eakin. R. (1. Case was charged in the justice’s court with the crime of peddling without a license, namely, with a two-horse wagon he did wrongfully and unlawfully, outside the corporate limits of any city and town, peddle to Jim Hayes a two-seated, open-.topped vehicle without first obtaining a license so to do, as provided by statute. He was tried in the said justice’s court and convicted, and judgment was rendered against him that he pay a fine of $150 and the costs of the action, being committed to the custody of the…
1Opinion
Former opinion approved May 19, 1914.
On Behearing.
(141 Pac. 746.)
In Banc.
2Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
The stipulation of facts in this case is reported at 135 Pac. 881, and need not be repeated here.
No reason is apparent why we should depart from the former decision with respect to the authority of the legislative assembly to enlarge upon the definition of the term “peddler,” as given by the lexicographers. The spoken language of the present day is not fixed and unchangeable. It expands and different terms take on new and additional meanings as time goes on. It is competent for the legislative assembly to give shape and…
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