HEALY v. RATTA

No. 731.

292 U.S. 263 (1934)

HEALY, CHIEF OF POLICE, v. RATTA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 30, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H. Thornton Lorimer, Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire, for appellant.

Mr. Fred C. Demond argued the cause, and Mr. Jonathan Piper filed a brief, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case comes here on appeal from a decree of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, affirming a decree of the District Court for New Hampshire, which enjoined appellant, the chief of police for the City of Manchester, from enforcing the "Hawkers and Peddlers Act," c. 102, New Hampshire Laws of 1931, as an infringement of the Fourteenth Amendment. An appeal taken directly to this Court from the district...

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