Clark v. Atlantic City
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
At Law. Action by Lizzie Lewis Clark and husband against the City of Atlantic City. On demurrer to declaration.
1Opinion of the Court
RELLSTAB, District Judge.
The declaration has two counts framed to recover alleged damages to the wife and husband respectively. The cause of action is the same in both counts, and, briefly stated, is that the wife, while working as agent in taking orders for corsets from sample and measurements from persons at Atlantic City, was arrested, tried, convicted, and fined by the municipal authorities for her failure to procure a license to carry on such business, as required by an ordinance of said city, which was void as far as she and such business were concerned, as an obstruction of and…
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