City of St. Louis v. Meyer

84 S.W. 914, 185 Mo. 583, 1904 Mo. LEXIS 338
CourtSupreme Court of Missouri
DecidedDecember 24, 1904
StatusPublished
Cited by26 cases

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City of St. Louis v. Meyer, 84 S.W. 914, 185 Mo. 583, 1904 Mo. LEXIS 338 (Mo. 1904).

Opinion

FOX, J.

This was a proceeding instituted by the city attorney of the city of St. Louis against the defendant, under the provisions of sections 2097, 2098, 2099, and 2108 of the Municipal Code of the city of St. Louis. The city attorney’s statement was as follows:

“State of Missouri, city of St. Louis, ss.:

“City of St. Louis, Missouri, December 17, A. D. 1903.

“Henry Meyer, to the city of St..Louis, Dr.

“To five hundred dollars for the violation of an ordinance of said city, entitled, ‘An ordinance in revision of the General Ordinances of the city of St. Louis, ’ being ordinance number 19991, sections 2097, 2098, 2099, and 2108, approved April 3,1900.

“In this, to-wit: In the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, on the twelfth day of September, 1903, and on divers other days and times prior thereto, the said Henry Meyer did then and there cause a large amount of fruit, vegetables, poultry and other articles of food to be drawn in a wagon by horses from place to place along the public streets of the city aforesaid, and while being so drawn the said Henry Meyer did offer the same for sale, by outcry, along said route and by soliciting the residents of said streets to purchase said goods from the wagon aforesaid, and did sell vegetables from same without first having procured a license from the license collector of aforesaid city so to [587]*587do, contrary to the ordinance in snch case made and provided. ’ ’

This suit was begun before the police justice for the first district of said city, who fined the defendant twenty-five dollars. The defendant appealed to the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction, where the case was tried upon the seventh day of January, 1904, and the defendant was fined twenty-five dollars. The defendant filed his motion for a new trial on the same day that’he was fined and the same was then overruled by the court, and defendant then tendered his bill of. exceptions, which was approved, signed and filed on said day, and defendant filed his affidavit for an appeal, and was allowed an appeal to this court.

This cause was submitted in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction upon the following agreed statement of facts:

. “The defendant is a resident of St. Louis county, Missouri, and is now and for many years has been cultivating a farm in said county as its proprietor. Upon this farm he has for many years past continuously raised apples, potatoes, tomatoes, grapes and like fruits and vegetables; he has also raised chickens and kept milk cows thereon. He has also continuously during this period made it a practice of selling the fruits and vegetables so grown by him, also poultry and eggs, and his milk and butter and cheese, the product of his cows, within the city limits of the city of St. Louis, by loading said products so produced or raised by him into his wagon, hauling them either in person or by employee into said city, and passing along the streets of said city, and selling or offering to sell such products in small quantities from his wagon, either from place to place or by outcry, to whomsoever would buy. He would continue so selling his products on any trip made in said city until the contents of his load had been disposed of. He was in the habit of coming with or sending his products for sale in the manner aforesaid [588]*588to the city several days each week during a period of about six months each year. Some of the sales made by defendant as aforesaid were made to regular customers, but without previous specific orders therefor; and in some instances his products were delivered upon previous orders.

“Defendant, on the first day of September, 1903, drove his wagon into the city of St. Louis, Missouri, loaded with the products of his farm in St. Louis county, Missouri, consisting of vegetables, fruits, berries, milk and butter, all produced by himself on said farm, for sale, all of which products he sold in small quantities to various persons, householders in said city, for private consumption, along the streets in the first district of said city, and from place to place, by delivering the produce as sold from his wagon.

“Defendant, on the third day of September, 1903, drove his wagon into the city of St. Louis, Missouri, with the products of his farm in St. Louis county, Missouri, consisting of vegetables, fruits, berries, milk and butter, all produced by himself on said farm, for sale, all of which produce he sold in small quantities to various persons, householders in said city, for private consumption, along the streets of the first district of said city, and from place to place, by outcry, delivering the produce as sold from his wagon.

“Defendant, on the 5th day of September, 1903, drove his wagon into the city of St. Louis, Missouri, loaded with the products of his farm in St. Louis-county, Missouri, all consisting of vegetables, fruits, berries, milk and butter, all produced by himself on said farm, for sale, all of which produce he in small quantities sold to various persons, householders in said city, for private consumption, and delivered the same from his wagon, stationed on Broadway, in the first district of said city of St. Louis, as customers demanded said products at said wagon.

“Defendant, on the seventh day of September, [589]*5891903, drove Ms wagon into the city of St. Lonis, Missouri, loaded with the products of his farm in St. Louis county, Missouri, all consisting of vegetables, fruit and berries, all produced by himself on said farm, for sale, all of which produce he sold in quantities -of a bushel or more, to various grocers and butchers, dealers in farm produce, at various points within the first district of said city of St. Louis, delivering said products as sold from said wagon.

“Defendant, on the ninth day of September, 1903, drove his wagon into the city of St. Louis, Missouri, loaded with the products of his farm in St. Louis county, Missouri, all produced by himself, consisting of vegetables, fruit, berries, milk and butter, all of which products he sold and delivered in small quantities to various persons resident in said city, upon previous orders given him therefor.

“Patrick J. Clifford was at the time of said acts of defendant license collector for said city of St. Louis, duly elected and qualified as such, and for more than a year prior thereto had been such license collector, and defendant had no license as a peddler or hawker issued to him by said Clifford as such license collector at the time of the performance of the acts by the defendant aforesaid. Said defendant had at no time mentioned in this agreed statement of facts applied for or secured a license as required by the ordinances pleaded.

“The plaintiff also offered in evidence sections 2097, 2098, 2099, and 2108, of the Revised .Ordinances of the city of St. Louis, which are in words and figures as follows, to-wit:

“ ‘Section 2097. License Required. — It shall not be lawful for any person to carry on the business of a peddler or hawker without obtaining a license therefor, and any person who shall so carry on the business of peddler or hawker without first having obtained a ..license, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, [590]*590upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars/ (Ord. 19703, amendment.)

“ ‘Section 2098. Peddlers Defined.

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