Town of Pacific Junction v. Dyer
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mills District Gotirt. Action upon an information charging the defendant with a violation of an ordinance passed by the town council of the plaintiff town. The defendant demurred to the information, and the demurrer was sustained, and judgment was rendered against plaintiff for costs. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
The information charged the defendant with selling goods as a transient merchant, within the limits of the town of Pacific Junction, without a license. For the purpose of showing that a license ivas _necessary, the information set out an ordinance, which provides that transient mer*39cliants shall pay a license of $25 per month, or $200 per year; and it defines transient merchants to be “every nonresident person who shall sell, exchange, or dispose of any goods, wares or merchandise of his own, or of other non-resident owners.”
The object of the ordinance appears to he to discriminate in favor of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- City of Marshalltown v. BlumSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882
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- In re Irish for a Writ of Habeas CorpusSupreme Court of Kansas · 1926
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