Welton v. Missouri
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme- Court of Missouri. Welton was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Circuit Court for the County of Henry, in the State of Missouri, for selling goods without a license.
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Error to the Supreme- Court of Missouri. Welton was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Circuit Court for the County of Henry, in the State of Missouri, for selling goods without a license. The first section: of the statute under which the indictment was' found is as follows: — “Whoever shall deal in the selling of'patent or other medicines, goods, wares, or merchandise, except books, charts, maps, and stationery, which ar® not the growth, produce, or manufacture of this State, by going from place to place to sell the same, is declared to • be a peddler.” The other sections prohibit a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This case comes before us on a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Missouri, and involves a consideration of the validity of a-statute of that State, discriminating in favor of goods, wares, and merchandise which are the growth, product, or manufacture of the State, and against those which are the growth, product, or manufacture of other states or countries, in the conditions upon which their sale can he made by travelling dealers. The plaintiff in error was a dealer in sewing-machines which were manufactured without the State of Missouri, and went from place to p]aco jin the State selling…
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