Commonwealth v. Pennisi

Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

The question submitted to us for solution is: “Whether an employee of a Bucks County merchant violates the Act of March 22, 1862, P. L. 161, which prohibits any person from selling or exposing to sale, as a hawker, peddler or traveling merchant, goods, wares or merchandise, said merchant having a fixed place of business in Bucks County being a taxpayer and paying a mercantile tax and the said employee selling his employer’s goods from the employer’s truck throughout Bucks County.” The Act of March 22,1862, P. L. 161, provides following the enacting clause: “No person or…