Oden v. Zachery

Plaintiff, who is sheriff and tax collector of the parish of Allen, seeks in this proceeding to recover two hundred dollars with penalties and costs for a license alleged to be due to the state by defendant as peddler and hawker for the year 1925. The claim is based upon Section 18 of Act 205, p. 324, of 1924, which fixes the license at two hundred dollars, when the peddler or hawker travels in a motor vehicle.

The salient facts are that defendant was engaged in selling the products of B. F. Bradford, who conducts a meat market in the city of Alexandria, parish of Rapides. These products…