Whipple v. City of South Milwaukee

The judgments under review were based upon the court’s adjudication that the plaintiffs’ method of doing business by delivering their respective products along established routes to their established or regular customers, pursuant to pre-existing arrangements with such customers, was not hawking or peddling and was not prohibited by that ordinance. In section 2 thereof, the words “hawkers” and “peddlers,” as used therein, were defined as including “all individuals, whether principals or agents or employees, who go about the city from place to place transporting goods, wares, or merchandise…