Crall & Ostrander v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Manchester, on the trial of an information against the plaintiffs in error. The information in this case was joint against the L. B. Price Mercantile Company, C. C. Ostrander and W. P. Crall. It contained six counts, each a separate charge of a sale without license to a different individual. It made no reference to the relation that either party bore to the other.
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Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Manchester, on the trial of an information against the plaintiffs in error. The information in this case was joint against the L. B. Price Mercantile Company, C. C. Ostrander and W. P. Crall. It contained six counts, each a separate charge of a sale without license to a different individual. It made no reference to the relation that either party bore to the other. The plaintiffs in error were proceeded against as individuals, and each count charged that all three defendants did unlawfully peddle and sell without a license. The proof…
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
Plaintiffs in error were tried and convicted upon information, in the Corporation Court of the city of Manchester, for peddling goods, wares and merchandise in that city without having first obtained a license as required by statute.
It appears that the L. B. Price Mercantile Company, a Missouri corporation domiciled at Kansas City, had established store-rooms, or depositories, for its goods in some twenty odd States of the Union. Among them, two were located in this State — one in the city of Norfolk, and the other in the city of Eichmond. The plaintiff in error, Crall, was the vice-president…
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