cles of carriers of property for hire, of those not
principally engaged in transport of property for hire, and carriers
operating wholly in metropolitan areas, Welch Co. _v._ New Hampshire,
306 U.S. 79 (1939); exemption of busses and temporary movements of farm
implements and machinery and trucks making short hauls from common
carriers from limitations in net load and length of trucks, Sproles _v._
Binford, 286 U.S. 374 (1932); prohibition against operation of
uncertified carriers, Bradley _v._ Public Utilities Commission, 289 U.S.
92 (1933); exemption from regulations affecting carriers for hire, of
persons whose chief business is farming and dairying, but who
occasionally haul farm and dairy products for compensation, Hicklin _v._
Coney, 290 U.S. 169 (1933); exemption of private vehicles, street cars
and omnibuses from insurance requirements applicable to taxicabs,
Packard _v._ Banton, 264 U.S. 140 (1924).
_Peddlers and solicitors:_ a State may classify and regulate itinerant
vendors and peddlers, Emert _v._ Missouri, 156 U.S. 296 (1895); may
forbid the sale by them of drugs and medicines, Baccus _v._ Louisiana,
232 U.S. 334 (1914); prohibit drumming or soliciting on trains for
business for hotels, medical practitioners, etc., Williams _v._
Arkansas, 217 U.S. 79 (1910); or solicitation of employment to prosecute
or collect claims, McCloskey _v._ Tobin, 252 U.S. 107 (1920). And a
municipality may prohibit canvassers or peddlers from calling at private
residences unless requested or invited by the occupant to do so. Breard
_v._ Alexandria, 341 U.S. 622 (1951).
_Property destruction:_ destruction of cedar trees to protect apple
orchards from cedar rust. Miller _v._ Schoene, 276 U.S. 272 (1928).
_Railroads:_ forbid operation on a certain street, Richmond, F. & P.R.
Co. _v._ Richmond, 96 U.S. 521 (1878); require fences and cattle guards
and allowed recovery of multiple damages for failure to comply, Missouri
P.R. Co. _v._ Humes, 115 U.S. 512 (1885); Minneapolis & St. L.R. Co.
_v._ Beckwith, 129 U.S. 26 (1889); Minneapolis & St. L.R. Co. _v._
Emmons, 149 U.S. 364 (1893); charge them with entire expense of altering
a grade crossing, New York & N.E.R. Co. _v._ Bristol, 151 U.S. 556
(1894); makes them responsible for fire communicated by their engines,
St. Louis & S.F.R. Co. _v._ Mathews, 165 U.S. 1 (1897); requires cutting
of certain weeds, Missouri, K. & T.R. Co. _v._ May, 194 U.S. 267 (1904);
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