Emert v. Missouri
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. This ivas an information, filed July, 27, 1889, before a justice of the peace in the county of Montgomery and State of Missouri, for a misdemeanor, by peddling goods without a license, in violation of a statute of the State, contained in chapter 137, entitled “ Peddlers and their licenses,” of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1879, the material provisions of which are copied in the margin,1 and which is reenacted as…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. This ivas an information, filed July, 27, 1889, before a justice of the peace in the county of Montgomery and State of Missouri, for a misdemeanor, by peddling goods without a license, in violation of a statute of the State, contained in chapter 137, entitled “ Peddlers and their licenses,” of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1879, the material provisions of which are copied in the margin,1 and which is reenacted as chapter 125 of the Revised Statutes of 1889. The information alleged that the defendant on June .26, 1889, in that county,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
From early times, in .England and America, there have been statutes regulating the occupation of itinerant- peddlers, and requiring them to obtain licenses to practise their trade.
In Tomlin’s Law Dictionary are these definitions: “ Hawkers. Those deceitful fellows who went from place to place, buying and selling brass, pewter, and other goods and merchandise, which ought to be uttered in open market, were of old so called; and the appellation- seems to grow from their uncertain wandering, like persons that with hawks seek their game where they can find it. They are mentioned in Stat. 33 Hen.…
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