Tate v. Akers

McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

The precise question in this- appeal is whether a Seventh Day Adventist “literature evangelist,” sometimes referred to as a “colporteur,” is a “solicitor,” “peddler,” “hawker,” or “itinerant merchant,” as those *1168terms are used in the City of Laramie’s version of the so-called Green River Ordinance. The trial court, after trial of the matter and after having heard testimony as to the nature of a colporteur’s work, found, and concluded, that a colporteur was neither a solicitor, a peddler, a hawker, nor an itinerant merchant, and accordingly held that the Laramie…