National Baking Co. v. Zabel

The very early definition of “peddler” still persists, and when the word “peddler” or the term “busi*96ness of peddling” is used in an ordinance or statute it is understood to refer to one who is an itinerant, and who relies on present solicitation and dickering to do business with customers he meets in his travel as opportunity for such business arises out of immediate circumstances. Unless the term is expressly amplified by adding other traffickers, it is not expected or understood to include men who engage in a business of supplying at fixed intervals regular customers with a certain type of…