State v. Whitcom
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. Appeal from judgment against the defendant for a penalty of $100 and costs under sec. 1576, Stats. 1898, as amended by ch. 341, Laws of 1901, rendered by the trial court on agreed facts. Appellant was salesman for a foreign corporation authorized to do business in Wisconsin and maintaining a permanent store at Milwaukee, where it keeps for sale merchandise, including teas.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. Appeal from judgment against the defendant for a penalty of $100 and costs under sec. 1576, Stats. 1898, as amended by ch. 341, Laws of 1901, rendered by the trial court on agreed facts. Appellant was salesman for a foreign corporation authorized to do business in Wisconsin and maintaining a permanent store at Milwaukee, where it keeps for sale merchandise, including teas. Defendant, a resident of Wisconsin, traveled from house to house in Madison with a single horse and wagon, taking orders for teas,…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
Our statute relating to the licensing and punishing of peddlers and transient merchants (secs. 1570 et seq., Stats. 1898, as amended by ch. 341, Laws of 1901) is an edifice of composite architecture, made up of a series of portholed turrets for ofíense against the obnoxious, and sheltered corridors to shield the favorites of the successive legislatures which have contributed to the conglomerate now under consideration. So far as any generalization of its labyrinthine details is possible, it provides that “no person” shall be allowed to peddle — “peddling” being defined so as to include the…
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