767; American Toll Bridge Co. v. Railroad Commission of California, 307 U.S. 486, 59 S.Ct. Facts: Marsh, a jehovah’s witness, was convicted of trespassing when she passed out religious fliers in the company-owned town of Chicksaw against the corporate owner’s permission. Unless they fall under the prohibition of some legal rule, however, they are a matter for adjustment between owner and licensee, or by appropriate legislation. Appellant was warned that she could not distribute the literature without a permit and told that no permit would be issued to her. 900, 84 L.Ed. Respondent State of Alabama . Citation326 U.S. 501, 66 S. Ct. 276, 90 L. Ed. The managers appointed by the corporation cannot curtail the liberty of press and religion of these people consistently with the purposes of the Constitutional guarantees, and a state statute, as the one here involved, which enforces such action by criminally punishing those who attempt to distribute religious literature clearly violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. 1691, 141 A.L.R. 21 So.2d 558. 461 So. 1290, Mr. Chief Justice Stone made the following pertinent statement: 'Freedom of press and religion, explicitly guaranteed by the Constitution, must at least be entitled to the same freedom from burdensome taxation which it has been thought that the more general phraseology of the commerce clause has extended to interstate commerce. 768, and whether certain action on or near the road amounts to a tort. The property consists of residential buildings, streets, a system of sewers, a sewage disposal plant and a 'business block' on which business places are situated. 265, 1946 U.S. 3097. Since these facilities are built and operated primarily to benefit the public and since their operation is essentially a public function, it is subject to state regulation.3 And, though the issue is not directly analogous to the on before us we do want to point out by way of illustration that such regulation may not result in an operation of these facilities, even by privately owned companies, which unconstitutionally interferes with and discriminates against interstate commerce. 316 U.S. at pages 610, 611, 62 S.Ct. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF ALABAMA. Did Alabama violate Marsh’s rights under the First and Fourteenth amendments by refusing to allow her to distribute religious material in the privately owned town of Chickasaw? Our question then narrows down to this: Can those people who live in or come to Chickasaw be denied freedom of press and religion simply because a single company has legal title to all the town? In our view the circumstance that the property rights to the premises where the deprivation of liberty, here involved, took place, were held by others than the public, is not sufficient to justify the State's permitting a corporation to govern a community of citizens so as to restrict their fundamental liberties and the enforcement of such restraint by the application of a State statute. 146, 84 L.Ed. Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, notwithstanding the fact that the sidewalk where the distribution was taking place was part of a privately owned company town. 326 U.S. 501. 1201; Port Richmond & Bergen Point Ferry Co. v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County, 824, 825, 826, 58 L.Ed. 272; McCarroll v. Dixie Lines, 309 U.S. 176, 184, 185, 60 S.Ct. Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, 39 S.Ct. 949, and others which have followed that case,1 neither a state nor a municipality can completely bar the distribution of literature containing religious or political ideas on its streets, sidewalks and public places or make the right to distribute dependent on a flat license tax or permit to be issued by an official who could deny it at will. 114) Argued: December 6, 1945 Decided: January 7, 1946. Heretofore this Court has sustained the right of employees, under an appropriate statute, protecting full freedom of employee organization, to solicit union membership in nonworking time on the property of an employer and against his express prohibition. Notes: Marsh was eventually limited to its facts because of the difficulty in maintaining the argument that a private property owner was serving a sufficiently public function. These community aspects are decisive in adjusting the relations now before us, and more particularly in adjudicating the clash of freedoms which the Bill of Rights was designed to resolve—the freedom of the community to regulate its life and the freedom of the individual to exercise his religion and to disseminate his ideas. 1290, in connection with 316 U.S. 584, 600, 62 S.Ct. She protested that the company rule could not be constitutionally applied so as to prohibit her from distributing religious writings. 401, 57 L.Ed. 862, 865, 866, 87 L.Ed. Schneider v. State, 308 U.S. 147, 161, 60 S.Ct. Except for that it has all the characteristics of any other American town. Decided January 7, 1946. Brief Fact Summary. 862, 87 L.Ed. 862, 87 L.Ed. In order to enable them to be properly informed their information must be uncensored. 136; Town of Leeds v. Sharp, 218 Ala. 403, 405, 118 So. Merchants and service establishments have rented the stores and business places on the business block and the United States uses one of the places as a post office from which six carriers deliver mail to the people of Chickasaw and the adjacent area. It was recognized in the opinion that the freedom of solicitation was the result of a regulatory statute and was not a Constitutional right. Cf. To do so, they now, as they have for many years, make use of a company-owned paved street and sidewalk located alongside the store fronts in order to enter and leave the stores and the post office. 1213, 128 A.L.R. 870, 891, 87 L.Ed. Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, even though the sidewalk was part of a privately owned company town. Marsh v. Alabama (No. Syllabus Opinion, Black Concurrence, Frankfurter Dissent, Reed Syllabus 1. v. St. Clair County et al., 8 How. Ser.) These decisions accorded the purveyors of ideas, religious or otherwise, 'a preferred position', Murdock v. Pennsylvania, supra, 319 U.S. at page 115, 63 S.Ct. Former decisions of this Court have interpreted generously the Constitutional rights of people in this Land to exercise freedom of religion, of speech and of the press.1 It has never been held and is not now by this opinion of the Court that these rights are absolute and unlimited either in respect to the manner or the place of their exercise.2 What the present decision establishes as a principle is that one may remain on private property against the will of the owner and contrary to the law of the state so long as the only objection to his presence is that he is exercising an asserted right to spread there his religious views. Both Federal and Alabama law permit, so far as we are aware, company towns. Hague v. Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, even though the sidewalk was part of a privately owned company town.The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment. 317. 1. 1313. 1330, and cases cited, 234 U.S. at pages 328, 329, 34 S.Ct. In this case we are asked to decide whether a State, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can impose criminal punishment on a person who undertakes to distribute religious literature on the premises of a company-owned town contrary to the wishes of the town's management. 1 Div. 520. Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama. 717, 88 L.Ed. Had the title to Chickasaw belonged not to a private but to a municipal corporation and had appellant been arrested for violating a municipal ordinance rather than a ruling by those appointed by the corporation to manage a company-town it would have been clear that appellant's conviction must be reversed. 'Traditionally and American law punishes persons who enter onto the property of another after having been warned by the owner to keep off. Jones v. Opelika, supra, 316 U.S. at page 608, 62 S.Ct. Definitions of Marsh v. Alabama, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of Marsh v. Alabama, analogical dictionary of Marsh v. Alabama (English) APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF ALABAMA Syllabus. 114. 870, 891, 87 L.Ed. 1290; Largent v. Texas, 318 U.S. 418, 63 S.Ct. And so I agree with the opinion of the Court, except that portion of it which relies on arguments drawn from the restrictions which the Commerce Clause imposes on State regulation of commerce. 266, summarized in Bowden, Freedom for Wage Earners, Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, Nov. 1938, p. 185; Z. Chafee, The Inquiring Mind (New York, 1928), pp. C.I.O., 307 U.S. 496, 59 S.Ct. MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. 2. United States Supreme Court. Casebriefs is concerned with your security, please complete the following, Fundamental Fights Under Due Process And Equal Protection, LSAT Logic Games (June 2007 Practice Exam), LSAT Logical Reasoning I (June 2007 Practice Exam), LSAT Logical Reasoning II (June 2007 Practice Exam), You can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our newsletter, Barron v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Slaughter-House Cases (Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughter-House Company), The Civil Rights Cases: United States v. Stanley, Amalgamated Food Employees Union Local 590 v. Logan Valley Plaza, Inc, Hudgens v. National Labor Relations Board, American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co. v. Sullivan. Jamison v. Texas, 318 U.S. 413, 63 S.Ct. The fact that the property (the town) is privately owned, does not justify restricting fundamental liberties. These communities may be essential to furnish proper and convenient living conditions for employees on isolated operations in lumbering, mining, production of high explosives and large-scale farming. 666, 82 L.Ed. The more an owner opens up his property to the public, the more the Constitution is applicable. Mr. Justice JACKSON took no part in the consideration or decision of this case. MARSH v. ALABAMA SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 326 U.S. 501 January 7, 1946, Decided. 66 S.Ct. 1231, 1240, 86 L.Ed. As we have heretofore stated, the town of Chickasaw does not function differently from any other town. The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment. Where the First Amendment applies, it is a denial of all governmental power in our Federal system. So long as the views which prevailed in Jones v. Opelika, 319 U.S. 103, 63 S.Ct. 890, 87 L.Ed. 116. December 11, 1984. Jehovah's Witness arrested for passing out religious literature in a company town without a permit Citation326 U.S. 501, 66 S. Ct. 276, 90 L. Ed. 192; Covington Drawbridge Co. v. Shepherd, 21 How. 1691, 141 A.L.R. Thank you and the best of luck to you on your LSAT exam. 276. Marsh v. Alabama. 1981897. at pages 824, 825; cf. 192, and cases cited on pages 293—295 of 199 U.S., on pages 94, 95 of 26 S.Ct. The 'dedication' of a road to the public may also be decisive of whether, under Alabama law, obstructing the road constitutes a crime, Beverly v. State, 28 Ala.App. An essential element of 'orderly' is that the man shall also have a right to use the place he chooses for his exposition. Decided January 7, 1946. 326 U.S. 501, 66 S. Ct. 276, 90 L. Ed. 870, 891, 87 L.Ed. 900, 84 L.Ed. The rights of the owner, which the Constitution protects as well as the right of free speech, are not outweighed by the interests of the trespass r, even though he trespasses in behalf of religion or free speech. Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, even though the sidewalk was part of … The Court calls attention to the fact that the owners of public utilities, bridges, ferries, turnpikes and railroads are subject to state regulation of rates and are forbidden to discriminate against interstate commerce. 679, 43 L.R.A.,N.S., 961. 114. The passway here in question was not put to any different use than other private passways that lead to privately owned areas, amusement places, resort hotels or other businesses. 1352; dissent of Chief Justice Stone in Jones v. Opelika, 316 U.S. 584, 600, 62 S.Ct. As a pre-law student you are automatically registered for the Casebriefs™ LSAT Prep Course. 114. 317. 263 (Misc. 2d 223. Marsh v. Alabama , 326 U.S. 501 (1946) , was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court , in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, notwithstanding the fact that the sidewalk where the distribution was taking place was part of a privately owned company town . But when decisions by State courts involving local matters are so interwoven with the decision of the question of Constitutional rights that one necessarily involves the other, State determination of local questions cannot control the Federal Constitutional right. Republic Aviation Corp. v. This contention was rejected and she was convicted. 717, 88 L.Ed. Argued December 6, 1945. Marsh v. Alabama 326 U.S. 501 Marsh v. Alabama (No. Citation 326 US 501 (1945) Argued. MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, even though the sidewalk was part of a privately owned company town. Syllabus Opinion, Black Concurrence, Frankfurter Dissent, Reed Syllabus 1. 81, even to the extent of relieving them from an unhampering and non-discriminatory duty of bearing their share of the cost of maintaining the peace and the other amenities of a civilized society. The latter involves an accommodation between National and State powers operating in the same field. That determination means that the corporation could if it so desired, entirely close the sidewalk and the town to the public and is decisive of all questions of state law which depend on the owner's being estopped to reclaim possession of, and the public's holding the title to, or having received an irrevocable easement in, the premises. 265, 1946 U.S. LEXIS 3097 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. Marsh, a Jehovah’s Witness, was arrested for trespassing after attempting to distribute religious literature in a privately owned Alabama town. Marsh, a Jehovah’s Witness, was arrested for trespassing after attempting to distribute religious literature in a privately owned Alabama town. 938, 152 A.L.R. Appellant contended that to construe the state statute as applicable to her activities would abridge her right to freedom of press and religion contrary to the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. 1330; Covington & L. Turnpike Road Co. v. Sanford, 164 U.S. 578, 17 S.Ct. *52 James M. Byrd, Mobile, for appellant. 669, 87 L.Ed. In the stores the corporation had posted a notice which read as follows: 'This Is Private Property, and Without Written Permission, No Street, or House Vendor, Agent or Solicitation of Any Kind Will Be Permitted.' There is nothing to stop highway traffic from coming onto the business block and upon arrival a traveler may make free use of the facilities available there. Decided January 7, 1946. Clark's Ferry Bridge Co. v. Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania, 291 U.S. 227, 54 S.Ct. 734. at page 876, 87 L.Ed. 427, 78 L.Ed. Get free access to the complete judgment in MARSH v. ALABAMA STATE TENURE COM'N on CaseMine. 155; Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88, 60 S.Ct. But determination of the issue of 'dedication' does not decide the question under the Federal Constitution here involved. 247, 63 L.Ed. Marsh v. Alabama. Such distinctions are of degree and require new arbitrary lines, judicially drawn, instead of those hitherto established by legislation and precedent. See also United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, Data on Pay Roll Deductions, Union Manufacturing Company, Union Point, Georgia, June 1941; Rhyne, Some Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Their Villages, Chapel Hill, 1930 (Study completed under the direction of the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina); Comment, Urban Redevelopment, 54 Yale L.J. The Appellant, Marsh (Appellant), distributed religious literature on the sidewalks of a company owned town in violation of the town’s regulations. 873; Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105, 63 S.Ct. 1231, 1240, 86 L.Ed. 1313, express the law of the Constitution, I am unable to find legal significance in the fact that a town in which the Constitutional freedoms of religion and speech are invoked happens to be company-owned. Synopsis of Rule of Law. 1213, 128 A.L.R. 224. This is the first case to extend by law the privilege of religious exercises beyond public places or to private places without the assent of the owner. Ownership does not always mean absolute dominion. The Supreme Court specifically states that a private town is not the same as a private homeowner. 114) Argued: December 6, 1945 Decided: January 7, 1946 21 So.2d 558, reversed. 948, 83 L.Ed. Marsh v. Alabama. 862, 87 L.Ed. Mr. Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellants. Compare Western Turf Ass'n v. Greenberg, 204 U.S. 359, 27 S.Ct. MARSH v. ALABAMA. 3. A state can not, consistently with the freedom of religion and the press guaranteed by the An owner of property may very well have been willing for the public to use the private passway for business purposes and yet have been unwilling to furnish space for street trades or a location for the practice of religious exhortations by itinerants. Marsh v. Alabama Case Brief - Rule of Law: A state cannot, consistently with the freedom of religion and the press guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth --- Decided: Jan 7, 1946. 869, as follows: 'But one who is rightfully on a street which the state has left open to the public carries with him there as elsewhere the constitutional right to express his views in an orderly fashion.'. 1691, 141 A.L.R. Here, the town was treated like a town, where the public was free to do as they pleased. The deputy sheriff arrested her and she was charged in the state court with violating Title 14, Section 426 of the 1940 Alabama Code which makes it a crime to enter or remain on the premises of another after having been warned not to do so. Whatever doub § may be entertained as to this Court's function to relieve, unaided by Congressional legislation, from burdensome taxation under the commerce clause, see Gwin, White & Prince, Inc., v. Henneford, 305 U.S. 434, 441, 446—455, 59 S.Ct. Marsh v. Green - 782 So. Local determinations of such technical matters govern controversies affecting property. 2d 51 (1984) Curtis MARSH v. STATE of Alabama. Your Study Buddy will automatically renew until cancelled. Related Posts: Kansas v. Marsh - Oral Reargument - April 25, 2006; Kansas v. Marsh - Oral Argument - December 07, 2005; 683, it cannot be thought that that function is wanting under the explicit guaranties of freedom of speech, press and religion.' 1081. at page 876, 87 L.Ed. We cannot say that Jehovah's Witnesses can claim the privilege of a license, which has never been granted, to hold their meetings in other private places, merely because the owner has admitted the public to them for other limited purposes. 384, 51 L.Ed. 514; Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105, 63 S.Ct. For it is the state's contention that the mere fact that all the property interests in the town are held by a single company is enough to give that company power, enforceable by a state statute, to abridge these freedoms. No. Thus, the owners of privately held bridges, ferries, turnpikes and railroads may not operate them as freely as a farmer does his farm. The restrictions imposed by the owners upon the occupants are sometimes galling to the employees and may appear unreasonable to outsiders. 325, 328, 331—335, 83 L.Ed. 667, 87 L.Ed. 625; Donovan v. Pennsylvania Co., supra, 199 U.S. at page 294, 26 S.Ct. 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.' 954, 83 L.Ed. 712. C.I.O., 307 U.S. 496, 59 S.Ct. 146, 84 L.Ed. 862, 87 L.Ed. Supreme Court of United States. 912. 514, adopted as the opinion of the Court, 319 U.S. 103, 63 S.Ct. 862, 865, 87 L.Ed. Cf. Martin v. Struthers, 319 U.S. 141, 146, 147, 63 S.Ct. In the bituminous coal industry alone, approximately one-half of the miners in the United States lived in company-owned houses in the period from 1922—23. 828, 56 L.Ed. 81; Follett v. McCormick, 321 U.S. 573, 64 S.Ct. Discussion. 1093; Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296, 60 S.Ct. As to the suppression of civil liberties in company-towns and the need of those who live there for Constitutional protection, see the summary of facts aired before the Senate, Committee on Education and Labor, Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor, Hearings pursuant to S.Rec. Alabama so decided and we understand that this Court accepts that conclusion. 408; Hamilton v. Town of Warrior, 215 Ala. 670, 112 So. You have successfully signed up to receive the Casebriefs newsletter. 3. Dec 6, 1945. Whether a corporation or a municipality owns or possesses the town the public in either case has an identical interest in the functioning of the community in such manner that the channels of communication remain free. 890, 87 L.Ed. The case is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. But a company-owned town is a town. p. 11. 38. N.L.R.B., 324 U.S. 793, 65 S.Ct. Had the corporation here owned the segment of the four-lane highway which runs parallel to the 'business block' and operated the same under a State franchise, doubtless no one would have seriously contended that the corporation's property interest in the highway gave it power to obstruct through traffic or to discriminate against interstate commerce. 1138; Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 51 S.Ct. 1313; Follett v. McCormick, 321 U.S. 573, 64 S.Ct. Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. When she was asked to leave the sidewalk and Chickasaw she declined. In his dissenting opinion in Jones v. Opelika, 316 U.S. 584, 600, 62 S.Ct. Syllabus. 949; Hague v. Port Richmond & Bergen Point Ferry Co. v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County, supra, 234 U.S. at page 326, 34 S.Ct. As the rule now announced permits this intrusion, without possibility of protection of the property by law, and apparently is equally applicable to the freedom of speech and the press, it seems appropriate to express a dissent to this, to us, novel Constitutional doctrine. A private entity that acts like a governmental body and performs a public function is subject to the United States Constitution (Constitution). 514, which later was adopted as the opinion of the Court, 319 U.S. 103, 104, 63 S.Ct. On Appeal from the Court of Appeals of the State of Alabama. Marsh v. Alabama, (1946). The CHIEF JUSTICE and Mr. Justice BURTON join in this dissent. Jan 7, 1945. 81; Follett v. McCormick, supra, 321 U.S. at page 577, 64 S.Ct. 265, 1946 U.S. Of course, such principle may subsequently be restricted by this Court to the precise facts of this case—that is to private property in a company town where the owner for his own advantage has permitted a restricted public use by his licensees and invitees. 669, 672, 87 L.Ed. 1691, 141 A.L.R. 982, 985, 987, note 8, 157 A.L.R. 114) Argued: December 6, 1945 Decided: January 7, 1946 21 So.2d 558, reversed. Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, notwithstanding the fact that the sidewalk where the distribution was taking place was part of a privately owned company town. 514, adopted as the opinion of the Court, 319 U.S. 103, 63 S.Ct. 1292, 146 A.L.R. 1213, 128 A.L.R. Although in Martin v. Struthers, 319 U.S. 141, 63 S.Ct. As to these, the judicial organ of a State has the final say. *502 Mr. Hayden C. Covington, with whom Mr. Grover C. Powell was on the brief, for appellant. Appellant, as we have said, was free to engage in such practices on the public highways, without becoming a trespasser on the company's property. 1292, 146 A.L.R. 326 U.S. 501. We know of no state which, as does the Struthers ordinance in effect, makes a person a criminal trespasser if he enters the property of another for an innocent purpose without an explicit command from the owners to stay away. Issue. 669, 87 L.Ed. In the area which is covered by the guarantees of the First Amendment, this Court has been careful to point out that the owner of property may protect himself against the intrusion of strangers. Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, even though the sidewalk was part of a privately owned company town.The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment. 514. 873; Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105, 63 S.Ct. However, it served as an alternate grounds for the decision in Evans v. Facts of the case. Intersecting company-owned roads at each end of the business block lead into a four-lane public highway which runs parallel to the business block at a distance of thirty feet. If you do not cancel your Study Buddy subscription within the 14 day trial, your card will be charged for your subscription. 912. 112, 125, 16 L.Ed. 153; Cloverdale Homes v. Cloverdale, 182 Ala. 419, 62 So. Every Bundle includes the complete text from each of the titles below: PLUS: Hundreds of law school topic-related videos from The Understanding Law Video Lecture Series™: Monthly Subscription ($19 / Month) Annual Subscription ($175 / Year). First Amendment to the Constitution. at page 719, 88 L.Ed. 265, 1946 U.S. LEXIS 3097 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. MARSH v. ALABAMA. 1414; Mills et al. Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, notwithstanding the fact that the sidewalk where the distribution was taking place was part of a privately owned company town. No. *502 Mr. Hayden C. Covington, with whom Mr. Grover C. Powell was on the brief, for appellant. 625, 69 L.Ed. 667, 87 L.Ed. Marsh v. Alabama Marsh v. 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