Eastman v. City of Chicago

Mr.' Chief Justice Scott

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This prosecution was commenced under the last clause of section 1, chapter 24, of an ordinance of the city of Chicago, that declares “'any person who keeps a store, office, or place of business, for the purchase or sale of second-hand clothing, or garments of any kind, or second-hand goods, wares or merchandise, is hereby declared to be a dealer in second-hand goods.”

Defendants are booksellers, dealing in such stock as is usually kept in a retail book store, and buy and sell, in connection with their other business, second-hand books.…