Twining v. City of Elgin

This was a suit by appellee against appellant, for violating an ordinance of the city of Elgin prohibiting “ itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise,” from pursuing their vocation in that city without a license, which ordinance bearing upon the case at bar was as follows, viz.:

“ Sec. 1. Every person who shall sell or offer for sale, barter or exchange, or solicit orders for any goods, wares, merchandise or other article of value, traveling from place to place in, upon or along the streets of this city, shall be deemed an itinerant merchant.

“ Sec. 2. Every itinerant merchant…