City of Cedar Falls v. Gentzer
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blacichawk District Qourt. — Hon. F. G. Platt, Judge. The defendant was arrested for a violation of an ordinance of the city of Cedar Falls. On trial before the mayor of the city he was convicted. lie appealed to the district court, where trial was had before the court without a jury, resulting in his discharge and a judgment against .the city for costs. The city appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
The city of Cedar Falls is in Black Hawk county, and defendant lives in Waterloo, in the same county. The business of defendant consists in soliciting orders for groceries from consumers, and thereafter making delivery of the goods ordered. His method involves the sending of *671the orders secured by him to a wholesale house in Davenport, accompanied by a sum of money sufficient to cover the wholesale cost thereof, whereupon the goods are put up in separate packages to correspond to the respective orders, and properly labeled, and the whole then boxed and shipped to Cedar Falls, addressed to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Minneapolis & Northern Elevator Co. v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
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