District of Columbia v. Gregory

Citations

• 35 App. D.C. 271
• 1910 U.S. App. LEXIS 5890

Syllabus

<p>Gift Enterprises ; Criminal Law.</p> <p>A trading stamp company which sells its stamps to merchants, whose names it prints in its directory of merchants, for $3.50 for 1,000, which stamps the merchants deliver to their customers, who have the right to redeem them of the company in articles of merchandise only when presented in'books containing 990 stamps, and also to redeem a single stamp for a pen, and ten or more for cash at the rate of $1 per 1,000, violates sees. 1176 and 1177, District of Columbia, Rev. Stat., making it a criminal offense to engage in the business of conducting a gift enterprise as defined in the act of the late legislative assembly of this District of August 23, 1871. Mr. Justice Van Orsdel dissenting. (Following Lansburgh v. District of Columbia, 11 App. D. O. 512, and District of Columbia v. Kraft, ante, 253.)</p>