Hoyt Bros. v. City of Lincoln

This is a suit in equity for an injunction to prevent Max Kier, city attorney of Lincoln, and William C. Condit, chief of police of Lincoln, from interfering with agents of plaintiff in soliciting in Lincoln orders for ordinary merchandise for future delivery. In violation of two city ordinances forbidding peddling without a license and without payment of an occupation tax, two agents of plaintiff solicited orders for merchandise for future delivery and were prosecuted and fined therefor. Continued prosecutions were threatened. The ordinances defined the taking-of orders for present or future…