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...summer of 1935 a Pontiac, Mich. factory mechanic named Hildred Gumarsol drove his trailer to Orchard Lake, removed the wheels, jacked it onto blocks, built a front porch, settled down for the summer. Several other trailers followed suit, paying the owner of the land the usual small parking fee. Most of them drove away at summer's end, but Gumarsol left his trailer there all winter, returned last summer to live in it again. Last month, angry owners of nearby real estate brought suit, charging that he was violating a village ordinance by living in a dwelling with less...
With these weighty matters hanging on his word, Justice of the Peace Arthur Green took several weeks to decide. Meanwhile, the village council levied a prohibitory license fee on persons renting their property as trailer camps. Hildred Gumarsol, who at first talked of going to the State Supreme Court if necessary, became so pessimistic that he packed up his trailer, left town, first martyr of the brave new trailer world. Last week his pessimism was justified. Justice Green held trial with Gumarsol absent. His decision: that Gumarsol had violated the law and that "trailer shantytowns" would no longer be allowed...
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