Brownback v. Burgess & Town Council

Citations

• 194 Pa. 609
• 45 A. 660
• 1900 Pa. LEXIS 450

Syllabus

<p>Hawkers and peddlers — License—Police regulation — Boroughs.</p> <p>A borough ordinance which prohibits “ all persons selling or offering for sale at retail in the streets oi the borough any goods, wares or merchandise, or any person soliciting orders from house to house for any goods, wares,” etc., without payment of a license fee of $12.25 is not prohibitory, but is a reasonable and impartial regulation of business, a proper exercise of the police powers of the state, and is, therefore, valid.</p>