Eastman v. City of Chicago

Citations

• 79 Ill. 178

Syllabus

<p>Dealers in second-hand goods—booksellers buying and selling secondhand books. An ordinance of a city which required dealers in secondhand goods to procure a license, declared that, “any person who keeps a store, office, or place of business, for the purchase or sale of secondhand clothing, or garments of any kind, or second-hand goods, wares or merchandise, is hereby declared to be a dealer in second-hand goods.” Held,- that booksellers, dealing in such stock as is usually kept in a retail book store, who buy and sell, in connection with their other business, and as incidental thereto, second-hand books, are not “dealers in second-hand goods,” within the meaning of the ordinance.</p>