Ames v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Jüi-ror to the County Court of Larimer County. Plaintiffs in error were prosecuted under an information for selling goods without license, which, in effect, charged that they, not having a legal license or permit to peddle goods, did peddle, sell, vend and retail wares and merchandise, not being produce, provisions or mining tools, nor commodities manufactured by them within this state, the merchandise so sold being a Home Comfort steel range.
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Jüi-ror to the County Court of Larimer County. Plaintiffs in error were prosecuted under an information for selling goods without license, which, in effect, charged that they, not having a legal license or permit to peddle goods, did peddle, sell, vend and retail wares and merchandise, not being produce, provisions or mining tools, nor commodities manufactured by them within this state, the merchandise so sold being a Home Comfort steel range. The sections of the statute to which reference is made in the opinion will he found in Mills’ Ann. Stats, as follows: “Sec. 2828. No auctioneer,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gabbebt
Erom the language employed in the information, it is evident that plaintiffs in error were' prosecuted under the sections above quoted, and the propositions advanced by their counsel are, that if it should be held that the information *510was based upon sections 2828 and 2829 alone, the conviction cannot stand, because of the discrimination there made in favor of those vending goods manufactured by themselves in this state as against those vending similar articles of their own product manufactured in other states; or, if based upon section 2828, then it must fail, because that section arbitrarily…
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