Circle v. City of Colorado Springs

In the absence of a record in this case, we indulge in the assumption that the City of Colorado Springs has an ordinance commonly designated by it as the “Green River Ordinance.” As gathered from the motion and the answer thereto, the effect of this ordinance is a prohibition against door-to-door solicitation by peddlers and solicitors. It is vaguely suggested that the purpose of this action is to test the validity of the ordinance.

As a part of the stage setting for the action, one of the plaintiffs in error, in an inoffensive way, was endeavoring to sell to a complainant a vacuum cleaner,…