Town of Scranton v. Hensen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Greene District Court. — IIon. F. M. Powers, Judge. Defendants were accused of the violation of an ordinance of the plaintiff town, in that without a license they carried on a transient mercantile business in the. said town. The trial court directed a verdict for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Deemer, J. —
Section Y00 of the Code provides that “towns shall have power to define by ordinance • who shall be considered transient merchants and to regulate license and tax their sales. . . .” Pursuant to this statute the plaintiff town enacted an ordinance from which we extract the following:
Section 1. Be it ordained by the council of the in*223corporated town of Scranton, in Greene County, Iowa, that no person, firm or company or corporation shall be engaged in any manner, directly or indirectly, carry on any trade, business, profession, or scheme, hereinafter mentioned, described or defined…
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