294 F. 587 | D. Or. | 1923
This is a suit to enjoin the city of Portland from enforcing as against the plaintiff an ordinance defining solicitors, and requiring them to pay a fee and execute a bond. The ordinance provides that a solicitor within the meaning of the ordinance
The plaintiff is an Illinois Corporation. It is engaged in business in the city by sending its salesmen throughout the municipality, taking contracts for the sale and delivery of hosiery. Under its regulations, its solicitor is required to collect from each person from whom he receives an order a certain sum of money in advance. The order is then forwarded to the home office in Illinois, and the goods are sent directly to the purchaser. Now it is claimed that this ordinance is void, first, because the fees charged are exorbitant and unreasonable; second, that it is an unlawful classification of persons engaged in the sale of goods or taking orders for goods and traveling from house to house while doing so; and, third, it is an interference with interstate commerce.
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