Horning v. District of Columbia
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This case comes here upon a writ of certiorari granted to review a judgment of the Court of Appeals that affirmed a conviction of the petitioner of doing business as a pawnbroker and charging more than six per cent, interest, without a license, which is forbidden by the Act of Congress of February 4,1913, c. 26, -37 Stat. 657. 48 App. D. C. 380.
The external facts are not disputed. The. defendant had been in business as a pawnbroker in Washington but anticipating the enactment of the present law removed his headquarters to a place in Virginia at the other end of a bridge leading from the…
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