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103 Va. 862

Crall v. Commonwealth

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided January 26, 1905

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1905-01-26

<p>Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Chesterfield county, on an information for peddling without license.</p>

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Affirmed · Decided 1905-01-26

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Whittle, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2In this case, as in another under the same style, in which an opinion has been handed down at the present term, the_ plaintiff in error was convicted and fined in a prosecution under section 50 of an act, approved May 13, 1903 (Acts 1902-*8633-4, p. 484), for peddling goods, wares and merchandise without a license.

¶3It appears in this, as in the former case, that the actual sale of the goods was made through one Joseph Freeman, an agent of the L. B. Price Mercantile Company, a corporation domiciled at Kansas City, in the State of Missouri; that the company had two depositories, or store-houses, in this State, the one located in the city of Norfolk, and the other in the city of Richmond. Crall was the vice-president of the company, and its general manager for the State of Virginia, with headquarters at Norfolk. Ostrander, under Grail’s supervision, was in charge of the branch store-house in the city of Richmond. Freeman, who was employed by Ostrander for the L. B. Price Company, was equipped with a wagon, goods and printed contracts of sale, and conducted a regular peddling business on behalf of the company. He was sent out to peddle goods, and reported his sales to Ostrander, who made his reports to Norfolk.

¶4Hpon the foregoing facts Crall was convicted of peddling, and a fine of $100 imposed upon him by the Circuit Court of Chesterfield county, to which court the case was carried by appeal from the judgment of a justice of that county.

¶5For reasons stated in the opinion in the former case, the judgment complained of is without error and must be affirmed.

¶6Affirmed.

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