Corson v. Maryland

Citations

• 120 U.S. 502
• 7 S. Ct. 655
• 30 L. Ed. 699
• 1887 U.S. LEXIS 1994

Syllabus

<p>The Code of Maryland provided that “ no person or corporation other than the grower, maker, or manufacturer, shall barter .or sell, or. otherwise dispose of, or shall offer for sale any goods, chattels, wares, or merchandise within the state, without first obtaining .a license in the manner ■ herein prescribed; ” that the application for the license should state on oath “ the amount of said applicant’s stock of goods, wares, and merclianclise generally kept on liand by him, or the concern in -which he is •engaged, at the principal season of-sale; or if said applicant shall not have previously engaged in such trade or business, the amount of such stock he expects to keep as aforesaid; ” and it graduated the rate to be paid for the license according to the sworn statement-of the applicant’s stock-in trade, at the principal season of sale, ranging from $15 to $150. A, a citizen and resident of New York', was indicted under this' statute for offering to sell by sample in Baltimore, without first obtaining a ' . license, goods for a New York firm, to be shipped by them directly to the purchaser in Baltimore. Held, that these enactments in the Code, as applied to A, violated that provision of the Constitution of tlie United States which grants to Congress the pow.er to make regulations of commerce among the states.</p> <p>Robbins v. Shelby County Taxing District, ante, 489, affirmed and applied to .this case.</p>