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MARTIN v. STRUTHERS

No. 238.

319 U.S. 141 (1943)

63 S.Ct. 862

87 L.Ed. 1313

MARTIN v. CITY OF STRUTHERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 3, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hayden C. Covington, with whom Mr. Victor F. Schmidt was on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. David C. Haynes and T.T. Macejko for appellee.

Miss Dorothy Kenyon filed a brief on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

For centuries it has been a common practice in this and other countries for persons not specifically invited to go from home to home and knock on doors or ring doorbells to communicate ideas to the occupants or to invite them to political, religious, or other kinds of public meetings. Whether such visiting shall be permitted has in general been deemed to depend upon the will of the individual master of each household...

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