Smith v. Whiddon

J. E. Whiddon, a peddler and traveling vendor of patent medicine, filed a petition seeking to enjoin the officers of the county from collecting from him the occupation tax prescribed in § 946 of Civil Code, for peddlers and traveling vendors of patent medicine, alleging that he was not subject to the tax sought to be collected, for the reason that he had no interest whatever in the business and was acting only as the agent and employee of a certain named indigent Confederate soldier, who was exempt from the payment of such tax under the law of this State, and held certificates from the…